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order belief", on asset price volatility. The paper shows that heterogeneous expectations induce higher order beliefs and … that heterogeneous expectation asset pricing models thoretically generate more volatility than rational expectation models … results shows that a model with higher order beliefs generates a level of volatility in line with the price volatility …
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The objective of operations on futures markets may be either hedging or speculation. In this paper, we wish to give a …
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There has been a long debate about whether speculators are stabilizing or not.We consider a model where speculators have a stabilizing role in normal times,but may also provoke large risk panics. The very feature that makes arbitrageursliquidity providers in normal times, namely their tolerance...
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This paper analyzes the trade-off between official liquidity provision and debtor moral hazard ininternational financial crises. In the model, crises are caused by the interaction of bad fundamentals,self-fulfilling runs and policies by three classes of optimizing agents: international...
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Das Thema der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit sind optimale Hedging- und Spekulationsstrategien für einen Unternehmer, der an einer internationalen Ausschreibung teilnimmt. Im Kapitel 2 werden das Entscheidungsproblem und die für alle nachfolgenden Abschnitte gemeinsamen Annahmen ausführlich...
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This paper explains a currency crisis as an outcome of a switch in how monetarypolicy and fiscal policy are coordinated. The paper develops a model of an open economy in which monetary policy starts active, fiscal policy starts passive and, in a particular state of nature, monetary policy...
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This study examines profits and speculation in the USD/EUR trading of a bank in Germanyover a four-month period …. Dealing activity at the bank generates profits but speculation doesnot seem to contribute to this. We find that speculative … positions fail to become profitablewithin a 30-minutes' horizon. Also, the suggestion that exchange rate volatility would …
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The paper describes how two types of traders, marketmakers and speculators, establish their positions and manage their risk exposure. We show that balance sheets are insufficient to determine whether a trader is a marketmaker or a speculator.(...)
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We analyse questions of arbitrage in financial markets in which asset prices change in time as stationary stochastic … framework of this model, we find conditions that are necessary and sufficient for the absence of arbitrage opportunities. We … discuss the relations between the results obtained and the phenomenon of ”volatility-induced growth” in stationary markets. …
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In this paper we construct arbitrage-free market models of stochastic volatility type for one stock, one bank account … of dynamic arbitrage in the market can be characterized in terms of drift restrictions on the model coefficients. Most … provide a class of explicit examples satisfying the no-arbitrage conditions. This allows us to construct arbitrage-free multi …
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