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Pricing and hedging of inflation-indexed bonds in an affine framework

Eksi, Zehra; Filipović, Damir - 2013

This study deals with the pricing and hedging of inflation-indexed bonds. Under foreign exchange analogy we model the … for the factor process. Then, we perform a novel hedging analysis where our objective is to replicate an indexed bond of a … given maturity by trading a portfolio of nominal bonds. This analysis leads to a hedging criterion based on a set of …

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Hedging under an expected loss constraint with small transaction costs

Bouchard, Bruno; Moreau, Ludovic; Soner, Halil Mete - 2014

We consider the problem of option hedging in a market with proportional transaction costs. Since super-replication is … very costly in such markets, we replace perfect hedging with an expected loss constraint. Asymptotic analysis for small …

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The role of signal precision and transaction costs in stock, option and volatility trading

Gençay, Ramazan; Gibson, Rajna; Xue, Yi - 2009

In this study, we examine the rationale that informed traders use in choosing various financial instruments in order to speculate on the volatility of the underlying asset, here a common stock. Using a continuous-time trading model, we demonstrate that the quality of the private information...

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Optimal liquidation strategies in illiquid markets

Jondeau, Eric; Perilla, Augusto; Rockinger, Michael - 2009

In this paper, we consider block trading strategies and characterize the times when a block trade is a popular choice. We also study the economic relevance of optimal liquidation strategies by calibrating a recent and realistic microstructure model with data from the Paris Stock Exchange. We...

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Reverse engineering financial markets with majority and minority games using genetic algorithms

Wiesinger, Judith; Sornette, Didier; Satinover, Jeffrey - 2010

Using virtual stock markets with artificial interacting software investors, aka agent-based models (ABMs), we present a method to reverse engineer real-world financial time series. We model financial markets as made of a large number of interacting boundedly rational agents. By optimizing the...

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Response speeds of direct and securitized real estate to shocks in the fundamentals

Oikarinen, Elias; Hoesli, Martin; Serrano, Camilo - 2010

We use sector level REIT and transaction-based direct real estate data for the U.S. to provide a clearer understanding of the dynamic relations between public and private real estate returns. We exclude leverage from REIT returns to make the REIT data more comparable with the direct market data....

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Regulating asset price risk

Bacchetta, Philippe; Tille, Cédric; Van Wincoop, Eric - 2011

There has been a long debate about whether speculators are stabilizing or not. We consider a model where speculators have a stabilizing role in normal times, but may also provoke large risk panics. The very feature that makes arbitrageurs liquidity providers in normal times, namely their...

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Systemic risk and sentiment : chapter contribution to handbook on systemic risk ; [edited by Jean-Pierre Fouque and Joe Langsam]

Barone-Adesi, Giovanni; Mancini, Loriano; Shefrin, Hersh - 2011

Regulators charged with monitoring systemic risk need to focus on sentiment as well as narrowly defined measures of systemic risk. This chapter describes techniques for jointly monitoring the co-evolution of sentiment and systemic risk. To measure systemic risk, we use Marginal Expected...

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Preemptive bidding, target resistance, and takeover premiums

Dimopoulos, Theodosios; Sacchetto, Stefano - 2011

This paper empirically evaluates two possible sources of large takeover premiums: preemptive bidding and target resistance. We develop an auction model that features costly sequential entry of bidders in takeover contests and that encompasses both explanations. We estimate the model parameters...

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Misvaluation and return anomalies in distress stocks

Eisdorfer, Assaf; Goyal, Amit; Zhdanov, Alexei - 2012

Return anomalies are most pronounced among distressed stocks. We attribute this finding to the role of misvaluation and investors' inability to value distressed stocks correctly. We treat distressed stocks as options and construct a valuation model that explicitly takes into account the value of...

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