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Several methods have recently been proposed in the ultra high frequency financial literature to remove the effects of microstructure noise and to obtain consistent estimates of the integrated volatility (IV) as a measure of ex-post daily volatility. Even bias-corrected and consistent (modified)...
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Macro-economic forecasts typically involve both a model component, which is replicable, as well as intuition, which is non-replicable. Intuition is expert knowledge possessed by a forecaster. If forecast updates are progressive, forecast updates should become more accurate, on average, as the...
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The recent and rapidly growing interest in biofuel as a green energy source has raised concerns about its impact on the prices, returns and volatility of related agricultural commodities. Analyzing the spillover effects on agricultural commodities and biofuel helps commodity suppliers hedge...
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Persistently high negative covariances between risky assets and hedging instruments are intended to mitigate against … risk and subsequent financial losses. In the event of having more than one hedging instrument, multivariate covariances …
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assets and the hedging instruments are intended to mitigate against financial risk and subsequent losses. If there is more … than one hedging instrument, multivariate covariances and correlations have to be calculated. As optimal hedge ratios are …
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Published in the <I>Journal of Reviews on Global Economics</I> (2013). Volume 2, pages 307-329.<P> Economists and financial analysts have begun to recognise the importance of the actions of other agents in the decision-making process. Herding is the deliberate mimicking of the decisions of other agents....</p></i>
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This paper examines volatility, volatility spillovers, optimal portfolio weights and hedging for systems that include … aluminum, copper and gold and less of oil in those portfolios. Hedging ratios indicate that the most effective way of hedging …
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) spot show different long-run adjustments, arbitrage profitable opportunities and price risk hedging capabilities. The … potentially hedging the spot prices of agricultural commodities with ethanol futures contracts, which sends an important message … that the ethanol futures market is capable of hedging price risk in agricultural commodity markets. The short …
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