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financing frictions and fair debt pricing, short-term debt increases incentives for risk-taking. To do so, we develop a model in … to increase asset risk in an attempt to improve interim debt repricing and prevent inefficient liquidation. These risk …
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This paper determines the value of asset tradeability in an option pricing framework. In our model, tradeability is valuable since it allows investors to exploit temporary mis-pricings of stocks. The model delivers several novel insights on the value of tradeability: The value of tradeability is...
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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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We discuss risk measures representing the minimum amount of capital a financial institution needs to raise and invest …-additive risk measures, for which the eligible asset is a risk-free bond, on the grounds that the general case can be reduced to the … provide a variety of finiteness and continuity results for the corresponding risk measures and apply them to risk measures …
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has the feature that it incorporates a catastrophic risk component as a tool to capture the dynamics of super …
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We build a macroeconomic model for Switzerland, the Euro Area, and the USA that drives the dynamics of several asset classes and the liabilities of a representative Swiss (defined-contribution) pension fund. This encompassing approach allows us to generate correlations between returns on assets...
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"Systematic Downside Risk" (SDR) is defined to characterize this asymmetry in the comovement of betas. This indicator negatively …
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We study option pricing and hedging with uncertainty about a Black-Scholes reference model which is dynamically recalibrated to the market price of a liquidly traded vanilla option. For dynamic trading in the underlying asset and this vanilla option, delta-vega hedging is asymptotically optimal...
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We propose a new paradigm to study coordination in complex social systems, such as financial markets, that accounts for fundamental uncertainty. This new context has features from prediction markets that have been shown previously to mitigate price bubbles in classical asset market experiments....
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new developments, for instance, the claims development result and the risk margin were introduced. The present text …
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