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The potential for economic agents to minimize risk through diversification is central to the study of finance. This dissertation analyzes the ability to diversify risks in an international context by studying risk sharing opportunities on two dimensions, consumption growth and portfolio wealth....
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then highlights a new mechanism, the hedging of labor income risk in the presence of agency problems, by which weak …
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I study several policy instruments for carbon mitigation with a focus on subsidies for renewable energies, emission taxes and emission allowances. In Chapter 1, I analyze the optimal design and the welfare implications of two policies consisting of an emission tax for conventional fossil-fuel...
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is modelled using extreme value theory and the joint density of hedge fund index returns is constructed using a copula …
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preserves a given set of marginals, a copula approach can be used to characterize the joint yield and price risk of corn and … soybeans, which are usually highly correlated. The copula approach has been spurred by the recent developments in the whole …. As a part of the study, various copula models are investigated for their suitability in modeling yield and price risks …
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. In financial science, copula functions are frequently used insteadof correlation coefficients to model joint price … less use of thismethod. This research uses the concept of “partly nested Archimedean copula” to model therelationship …
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conditions in different locations.For that purpose copula methods are employed that allow an adequate descriptionof stochastic …
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conditions in different locations. For that purpose copula methods are employed that allow an adequate description of stochastic …
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incorporating a copula dependence parameter into the VaR estimation. In addition, an alternative risk measure was also calculated …
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Considerable attention has been recently paid to the use of surrogate endpoints in clinical research. We deal with the situation where the two endpoints are both right censored. While proportional hazards analyses are typically used for this setting, their use leads to several complications. In...
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