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Expected Returns Independent Allocations

Susinno, Gabriele - 2015

Present market instabilities have prompted great interest on the characteristics of specific portfolios such as minimum variance and equally- weighted risk contribution portfolios as these portfolios do not rely on the estimate of expected returns. Indeed, in turmoil periods traditional market...

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Demystifying Rebalancing Premium : A Methodological Path to Risk Premia Engineering

Dubikovsky, Vladislav - 2015

Volatility is usually considered as a synonym for risk. Mainstream financial theory states that higher portfolio … framework that encompasses various investment styles and portfolio construction methodologies. Modern Portfolio Theory is a one … theory. We show that Markowitz portfolios and Warren Buffett's investment style are valid special cases of optimal growth …

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Preferential Credit Treatment, Bond Valuations, and Distressed Exchanges

Sarmiento, Camilo - 2018

This paper uses Duffie and Singleton (1999) discount model for defaultable bonds to infer the presence of a preferential credit treatment (PCT) for Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) in loss given default (LGD) space. The main inferences from the paper are twofold. -1- Lower lending fees in...

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Optimal Allocation of Limited Funds in Quadratic Funding

Pasquini, Ricardo - 2022

We examine the allocation of a limited pool of matching funds to public good projects using Quadratic Funding. In particular, we consider a variation of the Capital Constrained Quadratic Funding (CQF) mechanism proposed by Buterin, Hitzig and Weyl (2019) where only funds in the matching pool are...

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