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We formalize the idea that the financial sector can be a source of non-fundamental risk. Households' desire to hedge against price volatility can generate price volatility in equilibrium, even absent fundamental risk. Fearing that asset prices may fall, risk-averse households demand safe assets...
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increase in post-event short selling and changes in funds' derivative positions. Finally, I find that the long-short return …
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I argue that arbitrage mistranslates factor information from ETFs to constituent securities and distorts comovement … but by their portfolio weights, causing securities to comove with the ETF based on a measure I call arbitrage sensitivity … – a combination of portfolio weight and price impact sensitivity – rather than fundamental exposures. Arbitrage …
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from past and present prices of the leader, thus creating statistical arbitrage opportunities. We utilize robust lead … arbitrage opportunities. The framework is then evaluated on six months of DAX 30 cross-listed stocks’ LOB data obtained from …
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In this paper, we examine an exchange economy with a financial market composed of three assets: a share of a stock, an European call option written on the stock, and a riskless bond. The financial market is assumed to be incomplete and the option is not a redundant asset. In such a case the...
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We study a simple static economy with collateralized loan contracts and an incomplete asset market. We study whether economic forces operate to keep asset price equal to fundamentals in this economy. We find that asset prices may be higher than the valuation of any agent in the economy, i.e.,...
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The paper discusses the problem of hedging not perfectly replicable contingent claims by using a benchmark, the numerraire portfolio, as reference unit. The proposed concept of benchmarked risk minimization generalizes classical risk minimization, pioneered by Follmer, Sondermann and Schweizer....
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The paper discusses the problem of hedging not perfectly replicable contingent claims by using a benchmark, the numerraire portfolio, as reference unit. The proposed concept of benchmarked risk minimization generalizes classical risk minimization, pioneered by Follmer, Sondermann and Schweizer....
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The article presents a historical review of the literature related to the empirical problem of excessive risk premium. The risk premium (the difference between the return on equities and risk-free rate) observed in financial markets cannot be reconciled with theoretical models of financial...
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