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volatility to ex post realized volatility by analyzing volatility risk premia changes due to hurricanes indicates that investors …
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volatility to ex post realized volatility by analyzing volatility risk premia changes due to hurricanes indicates that investors …
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We investigate the uncertainty dynamics surrounding extreme weather events through the lens of option and stock markets by identifying market responses to the uncertainty regarding both potential hurricane landfall and subsequent economic impact. Stock options on firms with establishments...
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Traditional performance evaluation measures do not account for tail events and rare disasters. To address this issue, we reinterpret the riskiness measures of Aumann and Serrano (Journal of Political Economy, 2008) and Foster and Hart (Journal of Political Economy, 2009) as performance indices....
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Using an event study approach at the stock level, we examine the effect of North Atlantic hurricanes on U.S. stock returns over the period January 1990 to December 2014. We document a substantial economic impact of hurricanes on the aggregate market: an accumulated loss of 0.522% (6.264%...
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light on how long-memory investors react to disaster risk and play a role in future prices. The theoretical results show … from the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, including a novel definition of disaster based on COVID-19 intensity. The setup … allows us to disentangle the probability of disaster and investors' updating probability at each point in time which sheds …
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Recent studies have shown that disaster risk can generate asset return moments similar to those observed in the U ….S. data. However, these studies have ignored the cross-country asset pricing implications of the disaster risk model. This … paper shows that standard U.S.-based disaster risk model assumptions found in the literature lead to counterfactual …
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The rare disaster hypothesis suggests that the extraordinarily high postwar U.S. equity premium resulted because … in theory, empirical tests of the rare disaster explanation are scarce. We estimate a disaster-including consumption … thus provide empirical support for the rare disaster hypothesis, and help reconcile the nexus between real economy and …
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The rare disaster hypothesis suggests that the extraordinarily high postwar U.S. equity premium resulted because … in theory, empirical tests of the rare disaster explanation are scarce. We estimate a disaster-including consumption … for the rare disaster hypothesis, and help reconcile the nexus between real economy and financial markets implied by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388611