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This paper addresses the question of optimal currency exposure for a risk-and-ambiguity-avers international investor. A …
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We address the problem of risk sharing among agents using a two-parameter class of quantile-based risk measures, the so …-called Range-Value-at-Risk (RVaR), as their preferences. The family of RVaR includes the Value-at-Risk (VaR) and the Expected … Shortfall (ES), the two popular and competing regulatory risk measures, as special cases. We first establish an inequality for …
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We introduce a class of quantile-based risk measures that generalize Value at Risk (VaR) and, likewise Expected … probability of occurrence. The corresponding risk measure, called Loss VaR (LVaR), determines the minimal capital injection that … and applications to capital adequacy, portfolio risk management and catastrophic risk are presented …
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We study the pricing and hedging of derivative securities with uncertainty about the volatility of the underlying asset. Rather than taking all models from a prespecified class equally seriously, we penalise less plausible ones based on their "distance" to a reference local volatility model. In...
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risk and targets. Specifically, the choice function is equivalent to selection of a maximum index level such that the risk …
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We develop a dynamic model to study the interaction between obfuscation and investor sophistication in retail financial markets. Taking into account different learning mechanisms within the investor population, we characterize the optimal timing of obfuscation for a profit-maximizing monopolist....
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markets, such as liquidity dry-ups, portfolio inertia, and negative risk premia …
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We implement a long-horizon static and dynamic portfolio allocation involving a risk-free and a risky asset. This model …
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overconfident about the signal. We find that, because overconfident traders introduce an additional source of risk, rational … bonds are an essential accompaniment of equity investment, as they serve to hedge this sentiment risk …
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reduction (self-protection) so that correlation becomes endogenous. If prevention concerns only one risk, introducing a second … exogenous risk increases the level of prevention expenditures, even if correlation is negative. If prevention expenditures may … increased dependence increases aggregate prevention expenditures, but not necessarily prevention expenditures for each risk due …
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