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This article aims to investigate the similarity of public and private real estate returns and risks over the relatively long horizon using data for the U.S and the U.K. The results show evidence of a one-to-one relationship between publicly traded REIT performance and privately traded direct...
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framework that can alleviate some of the drawbacks of traditional approaches. A new jump–diffusion option pricing model and a …
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an ever-changing market environment is essential. Thus, the smallest acceleration or improvement over traditional pricing … methods is crucial to avoid arbitrage. We propose a novel method for accelerating the pricing of American options to near … pricer induces a speed accuracy trade-off compared to the typical Monte Carlo or Partial Differential Equation-based pricing …
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Many asset pricing theories treat the cross-section of returns volatility and correlations as two intimately related …
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At the end of January 2021, a group of stocks listed on US stock exchanges experienced sudden surges in their stock prices, which - coupled with high short interest – led to brief short squeeze episodes. We argue that these short squeezes were the result of coordinated trading by retail...
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We use BERT, an AI-based algorithm for language understanding, to decipher regulatory climate-risk disclosures and measure their impact on the credit default swap (CDS) market. Risk disclosures can either increase or decrease credit spreads, depending on whether disclosure reveals new risks or...
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Is it possible to achieve almost riskless investment results in the long run through equity investments? The persistence of low interest rates is spurring research on this question, because of the need to increase yields, while limiting variability of investment results. Target date funds aim to...
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Risk transfer is a key risk and capital management tool for insurance companies. Transferring risk between insurers is used to mitigate risk and manage capital re- quirements. We investigate risk transfer in the context of a network environment of insurers and consider capital costs and capital...
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We show that options written on stocks with low prices are over-priced. This effect is robust to a variety of tests, controlling for common stock- and option- risk characteristics, and to reasonable transaction costs. Natural experiments corroborate this finding; options tend to become...
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In recent years, a liquid market for options on a broad credit default swap index (CDX) has developed. We study the extent to which these options are priced consistently with options on a broad equity index (SPX). We consider a rich structural credit risk model in which firm assets follow a...
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