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The year 2000 started the evolution of the German market for Structured Products with incorporated Hedge Fund exposures. This paper provides an extensive commentary on this fast growing segment. Our analysis suggests that the market for existing products is affected by significant heterogeneity....
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Despite their impressive market success, investment certificates' benefits are puzzling from both a theoretical and an empirical viewpoint. Previous research analyzed portfoliotheoretical issues, mispricing patterns, and counterparty risk. This work highlights the impact of taxation, which has...
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-day cryptocurrency options data, which spans over the COVID-19 pandemic period. CVX data therefore capture 'normal' market dynamics as …
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, with evidence from listed firms in Taiwan, pricing options on stocks denominated in different currencies, with theory and … simple model free volatility in a high frequency world, arbitrage-free implied volatility surfaces for options on single … stock futures, the non-uniform pricing effect of employee stock options using quantile regression, nonlinear dynamics and …
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investors selectively exploit the expiration feature of options to mitigate the psychological costs associated with selling … losing positions, generating a strong disposition effect especially for out-of-the-money options. They also use the strike …
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strategies are also investigated, allowing for limited short selling and the inclusion of synthetic options in the security set. …
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We study the term structure of variance (total risk), systematic and idiosyncratic risk. Consistent with the expectations hypothesis, we find that, for the entire market, the slope of the term structure of variance is mainly informative about the path of future variance. Thus, there is little...
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literature suggests that even in the absence of any ability to predict returns, holding options positions on the benchmark assets …. The enhancement from holding options can be substantial if the implied volatilities of the options are higher than the …
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The paper investigates the allocative efficiency of the investment policy of pension funds established within the Welfare and Social Security System of the Brazilian federal entities. For that, it develops a model of strategic asset allocation for a pension fund whose resources fund a...
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An important assumption underlying the designation of some insurers as systemically important is that their overlapping portfolio holdings can result in common selling. We measure the overlap in holdings using cosine similarity, and show that insurers with more similar portfolios have larger...
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