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empirical strategy to test whether oligopolistic frms use forward contracts for strategic motives, for risk-hedging, or for both …. An increase in the number of players weakens the incentives to sell forward for risk-hedging reasons.However, if …Building on a model of the interaction of risk-averse frms that compete in forward and spot markets, we develop an …
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Dominance and further toDecreasing Absolute and Increasing Relative Risk Aversion Stochastic Dominance. The efficient sets …
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For more than three decades, empirical analysis of stochastic dominance was restricted to settings with mutually exclusive choice alternatives. In recent years, a number of methods for testing efficiency of diversified portfolios have emerged, which can be classified into three main categories:...
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Consider a simple two-state risk with equal probabilities for the two states. In particular, assume that the random … way, we can extend and generalize existing results about risk attitudes. This lottery preference includes behavior … exhibiting higher order risk effects, such as precautionary effects and tempering effects. …
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This paper examines preferences towards particular classes of lottery pairs. We show how concepts such as prudence and temperance can be fully characterized by a preference relation over these lotteries. If preferences are defined in an expected-utility framework with differentiable utility, the...
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risk aversion aspects of enterprises, it is demonstrated that situations characterized by enhanced exchange rate volatility …
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Recent research reveals that hedge fund returns exhibit a range of different,possibly non-linear pay-off patterns. It is difficult to qualify all these patternssimultaneously as being rational in a traditional framework for optimal financial decisionmaking. In this paper we present a simple...
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setting. We find that we cannot reject that the reversal-of-order axiom holds. This suggests that hedging could still be … possible when carefully implementing RLIS. However, we also find low levels of ambiguity hedging across the board, suggesting … the existence of the hedging possibility does not necessarily represent a common problem in ambiguity experiments. …
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empirical strategy to test whether oligopolistic firms use forward contracts for strategic motives, for risk-hedging, or for … both. An increase in the number of players weakens the incentives to sell forward for risk-hedging reasons. However, if …Building on a model of the interaction of risk-averse firms that compete in forward and spot markets, we develop an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275895
The literature has so far focused on the risk-return tradeoff in equity markets and ignored alternative risky assets … risk in the foreign exchange market. The paper provides new evidence on the intertemporal capital asset pricing model by … using high-frequency intraday data on currency and by presenting significant time-variation in the risk aversion parameter …
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