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This paper investigates the impact of both exchange rate and futures price volatility on bilateral cereals exports from … negative impact on French cereals trade. Surprisingly, we nd also that higher futures price volatility is associated with …, we nd that realized futures price volatility has a significant and positive impact on French exports of four commodities …
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Gram-Charlier expansion have become popular in Finance as a generalization over the normality assumption. Even though Gram-Charlier expansions allow for a certain flexibility over skewness and kurtosis they have the unfortunate drawback of sometimes yielding negative densities. The goal of this...
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Forward exchange rate bias explanation generally falls into two categories – assumption of rational expectation resulting in a risk premium and expectation errors which is systematic. The paper tests the bias in the Indian forward exchange markets using one-month and three month forward...
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We investigate the predictive information content in foreign exchange volatility risk premia for exchange rate returns …. The volatility risk premium is the difference between realized volatility and a model-free measure of expected volatility … that is derived from currency options, and reflects the cost of insurance against volatility ‡fluctuations in the …
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We find evidences of significant volatility co-movements and/ or spillover from different financial markets to forex … market for Indian economy. Among a large number of variables examined, volatility spillovers from stock market, government … to be most important. Empirical findings also indicate that the volatility spillover differed across variables in terms …
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This paper uses currency option data from the BMF, the Commodities and Futures exchange in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to investigate market expectations on the Brazilian Real-U.S. dollar exchange rate from October 1994 through March 1999. Using options data, we derive implied probability density...
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This paper analyses the incentives of the equityholders of a leveraged company to shut it down in a continuous time, stochastic environment. Keeping the firm as an ongoing concern has an option value but equity and debt holders value it differently. Equityholders' decisions exhibit excessive...
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Black/Scholes constant volatility assumption is violated in practice. These authors hypothesize that the volatility of the … underlying asset’s return is a deterministic function of the asset price and time, and develop the deterministic volatility … 1993, we evaluate the economic significance of the implied deterministic volatility function by examining the predictive …
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undesirable feature of predicting that the asymptotic value of the short rate volatility is zero. This theoretical result is … reverting Gaussian option values. In other words, the volatility in the rational lognormal model declines so quickly that …
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