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Capital structure and financial flexibility : expectations of future shocks
Lambrinoudakis, Costas; Neumann, Michael; Skiadopoulos, … - 2014 - This draft: 3 October 2014
equity options. We find that expectations for future shocks decrease leverage and are statistically significant even when we …
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The Value of Tradeability
Chesny, Mark; Kempf, Alexander - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009249000
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The Endogenous Price Dynamics of Emission Allowances: An Application to CO2 Option Pricing
Chesney, Marc; Taschini, Luca - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2011
Market mechanisms are increasingly being used as a tool for allocating somewhat scarce but unpriced rights and resources, such as air and water. Tradable permits have emerged as the most cost effective measure leading to the emergence of both nationwide (SO2 ) and supranational (CO2 ) emission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005857751
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Ambiguity Aversion and the Term Structure of Interest Rates
Gagliardini, Patrick; Porchia, Paolo; Trojani, Fabio - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007
This paper studies the term structure implications of a simple structural economy in which the representative agent displays ambiguity aversion, modeled by Multiple Priors Recursive Utility. Bond excess returns reflect a premium for ambiguity, which is observationally distinct from the risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005858032
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Foreign Direct Investment and Exchange Rate Volatility: a Non-Linear Story
Jeanneret, Alexandre - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007
volatility: the effct is negative for low levels of uncertainty and positive for higher levels. I also construct a real-options … predictions and the theoretical approach stand in stark contrast to the real-options literature, which implies a negative relation … the influence of exchange rate volatility on the expected investment level. The paper therefore extends the real-options …
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The role of outliers and oil price shocks on volatility of metal prices
Behmiri, Niaz Bashiri; Manera, Matteo - 2015
This study investigates the price volatility of metals, using the GARCH and GJR models. First we examine the persistence of volatility and the leverage effect across metal markets taking into account the presence of outliers, and second we estimate the effects of oil price shocks on the price...
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Futures price volatility in commodities markets : the role of short term vs long term speculation
Manera, Matteo; Nicolini, Marcella; Vignati, Ilaria - 2013
This paper evaluates how different types of speculation affect the volatility of commodities' futures prices. We adopt four indexes of speculation: Working's T, the market share of non-commercial traders, the percentage of net long speculators over total open interest in future markets, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009756298
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Impact of transaction taxes on commodity derivatives trading in India
Ray, Saon; Malik, Neha - 2014
Commodity derivatives were introduced in India with a dual purpose of promoting price discovery and enhancing risk management in the commodities market. A transaction tax (of 0.01 per cent) on commodity futures trading was introduced in the Union Budget 2013-14. This study examines the rationale...
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How does the market variance risk premium vary over time? : evidence from S&P 500 variance swap investment returns
Konstantinidi, Eirini; Skiadopoulos, George - 2014
We explore whether the market variance risk premium (VRP) can be predicted. First, we propose a novel approach to measure VRP which distinguishes the investment horizon from the variance swap's maturity. We extract VRP from actual rather than synthetic S&P 500 variance swap quotes, thus avoiding...
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Jumps in option prices and their determinants : real-time evidence from the E-mini S&P 500 option market
Kapetanios, George; Neumann, Michael; Skiadopoulos, George - 2014
data from the 24-hour E-mini S&P 500 options market. We find that option prices do not jump simultaneously across strikes …
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