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return series, and under the risk neutral measure from option prices. The difference between the two estimates motivates a so … with the size of the basket. Second, since the IC is implied from option prices it is not constant over maturities and …
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In this paper we consider the optimal stopping problem for general dynamic monetary utility functionals. Sufficient conditions for the Bellman principle and the existence of optimal stopping times are provided. Particular attention is payed to representations which allow for a numerical...
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pricing models reflect these risks. Averaging across the pool of investors we obtain a market asset pricing model that … investors, that many personally relevant risk considerations can be eliminated from the market asset pricing model. Examples … on asset pricing include a need to focus on identifying and explaining investor specific risk exposures. …
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We hypothesize that oil and gas producers' 10-K market risk disclosures, recently mandated by SEC Financial Reporting Release Number 48 (FRR No. 48), convey useful information to investors about commodity betas (defined as the sensitivity of firms' equity price changes to commodity price...
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Using prices of both S&P 500 options and recently introduced VIX options, we study asset pricing implications of … volatility risk. While pointing out the joint pricing kernel is not identified nonparametrically, we propose model-free estimates … of marginal pricing kernels of the market return and volatility conditional on the VIX. We find that the pricing kernel …
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We study the representative consumer's risk attitude and efficient risk-sharing rules in a single-period, single-good economy in which consumers have homogeneous probabilistic beliefs but heterogeneous risk attitudes. We prove that if all consumers have convex absolute risk tolerance, so must...
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.Since different pricing models tend to diverge the most for stressed scenarios, model risk has a material impact on capital …
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Prices in financial markets must move continuously and surprisingly to support their levels with returns. Consequently the function announcing the arrival rate of moves of different sizes becomes the equilibrium object, necessitating a reformulation of risk reward concepts in these terms. It is...
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In this study, I develop a novel methodology to extract crash risk premia from options and stock markets. I document a dramatic increase in crash risk premia after the 2008/2009 nancial crisis, indicating that investors are willing to pay high insurance to hedge against crashes in individual...
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In this paper, I examine how financialization affects the term structure of risk premia by using an equilibrium model for commodity futures markets. I define financialization as the entry of cross-asset investors, who are exposed to a commodity risk, into a commodity market. Qualitatively, the...
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