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which depending on the market states signaled by the level of volatility spread. We have documented that effectively, there … capital. We then propose the volatility spread as the active management factor into the Carhart's model used to evaluate …
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Conventional financial theory considers ex-ante that risk, generally measured by the volatility, has to be …
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than 30% of SP500 securities can have percentage change in volatility of more than 10% as a result of noise filtering …, variances (diagonal elements of the covariance matrix - squares of volatility) contain noise as well. Our noise …
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Current practice largely follows restrictive approaches to market risk measurement, such as historical simulation or RiskMetrics. In contrast, we propose flexible methods that exploit recent developments in financial econometrics and are likely to produce more accurate risk assessments, treating...
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We propose several connectedness measures built from pieces of variance decompositions, and we argue that they provide natural and insightful measures of connectedness among financial asset returns and volatilities. We also show that variance decompositions define weighted, directed networks, so...
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This study provides evidence of common bivariate jumps (i.e., systematic cojumps) between the market index and style-sorted portfolios. Systematic cojumps are prevalent in book-to-market portfolios and hence, their risk cannot easily be diversified away by investing in growth or value stocks....
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observed volatility of private equity returns is unrealistically low because the recorded returns of private equity are based … the observed volatility. As an alternative to observed volatility some investors have argued that private equity … volatility should be estimated as leveraged public equity volatility, because private equity companies are more highly levered …
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Three concepts: stochastic discount factors, multi-beta pricing and mean-variance efficiency, are at the core of modern empirical asset pricing. This chapter reviews these paradigms and the relations among them, concentrating on conditional asset-pricing models where lagged variables serve as...
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;excessivequot; stock price volatility and quot;sentimentquot; fluctuations. We construct a general equilibrium model of sentiment. In it … that rational investors can do optimally to exploit, and hence, eliminate excessive volatility, except in the very long run.quot …
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