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We study the implications of undiversified investors in a production-based asset pricing model with rare disasters. In our model, households experience idiosyncratic shocks to human capital and partially invest their wealth in a single firm with idiosyncratic shocks. The model features tractable...
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basic questions within that model. We review the empirical literature through the lens of the theory, using the theory to …
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The objective pursued in the present work is the identification of possible anomalies associated with daily seasonality in the returns of British companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. For this purpose, we examine the profitability of these companies for a the sample period between the...
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We find out-of-sample predictability of commodity futures excess returns using forecast combinations of 28 potential predictors. Such gains in forecast accuracy translate into economically significant improvements in certainty equivalent returns and Sharpe ratios for a mean-variance investor....
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This paper examines the effectiveness of using futures contracts as hedging instruments of: (1) alternative models of …, Euro, British pound and Japanese yen, against the American dollar, are used to analyze hedge ratios and hedging … optimal portfolio weights and optimal hedge ratios to identify appropriate currency hedging strategies. The hedging …
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Hedge Fund returns are often highly serially correlated mainly due to illiquidity exposures given that investments in such securities tend to be inactively traded and associated market prices are not always readily available. Following that, observed returns of such alternative investments tend...
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This paper explores possibilities of using rolling regression CAPM on the Zagreb Stock Exchange in portfolio and risk management. Since original model has many flaws, one of them including the assumption of constant parameters in the model, extending the model with the assumption of changing...
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dollar long in crude oil spot. Finally, the hedging effectiveness indicates that DCC (BEKK) is the best (worst) model for OHR …
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We demonstrate how it is possible to generate value for an investor with a hedge attached to the buy-and-hold strategy of a S&P 500 index fund. We study the S&P 500 index portfolio (not including dividends) and the CRSP value weighted S&P 500 index portfolio (including dividends) for...
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We reveal pitfalls in the hedging of insurance contracts with a minimum return guarantee on the underlying investment …, e.g.\ an external mutual fund. We analyze basis risk entailed by hedging the guarantee with a dynamic portfolio of proxy … risk. We demonstrate that both risks may be surprisingly high and show how the design of the contract and the hedging …
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