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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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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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Safe Haven Currencies
Ranaldo, Angelo; Söderlind, Paul - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007
We study high-frequency exchange rate movements over the sample 1993–2006. We document that the (Swiss) franc, euro, Japanese yen and the pound tend to appreciate against the U.S. dollar when (a) S&P has negative returns; (b) U.S. bond prices increase; and (c) when currency markets become more...
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Carry trades, order flow and the forward bias puzzle
Breedon, Francis J.; Rime, Dagfinn; Vitale, Paolo - 2015
We investigate the relation between foreign exchange (FX) order flow and the forward bias. We outline a decomposition of the forward bias according to which a negative correlation between interest rate differentials and order flow creates a time-varying risk premium consistent with that bias....
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Financial openness of China and India : implications for capital account liberalisation
Ma, Guonan; McCauley, Robert N. - 2014
We gauge the de-facto capital account openness of the Chinese and Indian economies by testing the law of one price on the basis of onshore and offshore price gaps for three key financial instruments. Generally, the three measures show both economies becoming more financially open over time. Over...
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Internationalising the currency while leveraging massively : the case of China
García Herrero, Alicia - 2015
This paper reviews the steps that China has taken towards financial reform with a particular focus on capital account liberalisation and internationalisation of the use of the renminbi. After a slowdown in reform momentum during the global financial crisis, there is a clear push towards reform,...
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Hierarchical time varying estimation of a multi factor asset pricing model
Baillie, Richard; Calonaci, Fabio; Kapetanios, George - 2019
This paper presents a new hierarchical methodology for estimating multi factor dynamic asset pricing models. The approach is loosely based on the sequential approach of Fama and MacBeth (1973). However, the hierarchical method uses very flexible bandwidth selection methods in kernel weighted...
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Assessing the solvency of virtual asset service providers : are current standards sufficient?
Saggese, Pietro; Segalla, Esther; Sigmund, Michael; … - 2023
Entities like centralized cryptocurrency exchanges fall under the business category of virtual asset service providers (VASPs). As any other enterprise, they can become insolvent. VASPs enable the exchange, custody, and transfer of cryptoassets organized in wallets across distributed ledger...
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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...
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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...
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