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Stocks with recent past high idiosyncratic volatility have low future average returns around the world. Across 23 … developed markets, the difference in average returns between the extreme quintile portfolios sorted on idiosyncratic volatility … higher moments. There is strong comovement in the low returns to high idiosyncratic volatility stocks across countries …
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This paper examines the relationship between spot and futures prices for a broad range of commodities, including energy, precious and base metals, and agricultural commodities. In particular, we examine whether futures prices are (1) an unbiased and/or (2) accurate predictor of subsequent spot...
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is good news for the theory and for market efficiency, not bad news. In terms of residual FCOJ return volatility, we also …
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Perpetual futures are contracts without expiration date in which the anchoring of the futures price to the spot price is ensured by periodic funding payments from long to short. We derive explicit expressions for the no-arbitrage price of various perpetual contracts, including linear, inverse,...
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domestic welfare through two channels. First, by reducing export income volatility and allowing for a smoother consumption path …
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We conduct a comprehensive analysis of unspanned stochastic volatility in commodity markets in general and the crude …-oil market in particular. We present model-free results that strongly suggest the presence of unspanned stochastic volatility in … stochastic volatility. The model features correlations between innovations to futures prices and volatility, quasi …
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growth rate and volatility of commodity spot prices. This view gained credence because in the 2000s trading volume increased …
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If commercial producers or financial investors use futures contracts to hedge against commodity price risk, the arbitrageurs who take the other side of the contracts may receive compensation for their assumption of nondiversifiable risk in the form of positive expected returns from their...
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This paper investigates the relation between returns on stock indices and their corresponding futures contracts in order to evaluate potential explanations for the pervasive yet anomalous evidence of positive, short-horizon portfolio autocorrelations. Using a simple theoretical framework, we...
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any studies have replicated the finding that the forward rate is a biased predictor of the future change in the spot exchange rate. Usually the forward discount actually points in the wrong direction. But virtually all those studies apply to advanced economies and major currencies. We apply the...
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