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Herd Immunity and Immunization Policy : The Importance of Accuracy
Reiss, Dorit Rubinstein - 2015
Vaccination: Does the Theory Justify the Law?, are incorrect and untenable. The authors misunderstand the nature of society’s duty …
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The Risk Premium for Minority Banks Altruistic Portfolios in Underserved Communities
Charles-Cadogan, G. - 2017
minority bank (MB) policies. Our theory apparatus synthesizes Vasicek's bond pricing model, and KMV Moody loan portfolio model … increased capital, and brokered deposits, militate against altruistic motives. This implies that for a given amount of altruism …, MBs are better served by tactical portfolio allocation in an expanded investment opportunity set. We apply the theory to …
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Securities Regulation, Household Equity Ownership, and Trust in the Stock Market
Christensen, Hans Bonde - 2019
Using aggregate data from national accounts, we study whether strengthening and harmonizing securities regulation across the European Union increases household equity ownership. We find a significant increase in the proportion of liquid assets invested in equity, both when a household's own...
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“Green” Social Norms, Portfolio Allocations and Corporate Environmental Practices
Sulaeman, Johan; Varma, Abhishek - 2021
Institutional investors located in cities with social norms friendlier towards the environment (“green” cities) are sensitive to corporate environmental practices. Their portfolios are tilted away from stocks exhibiting negative environmental practices, particularly those headquartered in...
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Tradeable Permits in a Policy Portfolio : Institutional Diversity as Evolutionary Advantage?
Woerdman, Edwin; de Vries, Frans P. - 2013
"Standard" environmental economics considers emissions trading to be the most effective and efficient policy instrument to meet the emission target. However, a popular view is that tradeable permits should be part of a policy portfolio, including other instruments, to reach this goal. Support...
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Return and risk of pairs trading using a simulation-based Bayesian procedure for predicting stable ratios of stock prices
Ardia, David; Gatarek, Lukasz T.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; … - In: Econometrics : open access journal 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-19
We investigate the direct connection between the uncertainty related to estimated stable ratios of stock prices and risk and return of two pairs trading strategies: a conditional statistical arbitrage method and an implicit arbitrage one. A simulation-based Bayesian procedure is introduced for...
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Machine learning with kernels for portfolio valuation and risk management
Boudabsa, Lotfi; Filipović, Damir - 2019
We introduce a simulation method for dynamic portfolio valuation and risk management building on machine learning with kernels. We learn the dynamic value process of a portfolio from a finite sample of its cumulative cash flow. The learned value process is given in closed form thanks to a...
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Time-varying combinations of Bayesian dynamic models and equity momentum strategies
Basturk, Nalan; Grassi, Stefano; Hoogerheide, Lennart; … - 2016
A novel dynamic asset-allocation approach is proposed where portfolios as well as portfolio strategies are updated at every decision period based on their past performance. For modeling, a general class of models is specified that combines a dynamic factor and a vector autoregressive model and...
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Testing for alpha in linear factor pricing podels with a large number of securities
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Yamagata, Takashi - 2017
This paper proposes a novel test of zero pricing errors for the linear factor pricing model when the number of securities, N, can be large relative to the time dimension, T, of the return series. The test is based on Student t tests of individual securities and has a number of advantages over...
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Calculating trading book capital : is risk separation appropriate?
Raupach, Peter - 2015
Regulatory capital for trading book positions includes two components that cover different risks but apply to the same portfolio, one for market risk and one for credit risk. Similar approaches are common in banks’ internal models for economic capital. Although it is known that joint market...
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