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We suggest an alternative approach to testing whether stocks provide a hedge against inflation in the long run. Based … on a simple structural model, we test the hedge hypothesis in terms of the long-run linkage between stock prices and the …-period, results give strong support for the hedge property, defined in the narrow sense of a perfect hedge. This contrasts with the …
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. Our results show that riskier stocks underperform because they have on average lower exposures to aggregate default risk. …
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Stock and bond are the two most crucial assets for portfolio allocation and risk management. This study proposes generalized autoregressive score mixed frequency data sampling (GAS MIDAS) copula models to analyze the dynamic dependence between stock returns and bond returns. A GAS MIDAS copula...
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find that inflation/interest rate, uncertainty and liquidity factors are the main drivers of the long-run co-dependence. We …
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This study attempts to identify uncertainty in the long-term rate of interest based on the controversial interest rate … macroeconomic variables without interest uncertainty are thus seriously incomplete. …
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We present a standard model of financial innovation, in which intermediaries engineer securities with cash flows that investors seek, but modify two assumptions. First, investors (and possibly intermediaries) neglect certain unlikely risks. Second, investors demand securities with safe cash...
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This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at home when domestic equity prices are higher,...
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This contribution starts out by noting a conflict of interest between consumers and insurers. Consumers face positive correlation in their assets (health, wealth, wisdom, i.e. skills), causing them to demand a great deal of insurance coverage. Insurers on the other hand eschew positively...
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; emerging market economies (EMEs) improved however. Offshore, local-currency bonds of EMEs became popular as result, with many … bonds have generated tremendous interest amongst issuers and investors. Market growth and development is challenged though …
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fundamentalists and chartists co-exist and are subject to regret and uncertainty. We find significant evidence that energy markets are … composed by heterogeneous traders which behave differently depending on the intensity of the price fluctuations and uncertainty … ; Uncertainty Aversion ; Regret …
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