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What Do Treasury Bond Risks Say about Supply and Demand Shocks?

Pflueger, Carolin E. - 2022

This paper analyzes how the risks of nominal and inflation-indexed Treasury bonds vary with the presence of supply and demand shocks through the lens of a small-scale New Keynesian model with habit formation preferences, where investors become more risk averse following adverse economic shocks....

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A Guide to Duration, DV01, and Yield Curve Risk Transformations

Coleman, Thomas - 2011

Duration and DV01 (dollar duration) measure price sensitivity and provide the basic risk measure for bonds, swaps, and other fixed income instruments. When valuing instruments off a yield curve, duration and DV01 naturally extend to a vector of partial DV01s or durations (key rate durations) and...

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Optimal long-term allocation with pension fund liabilities

Jondeau, Eric; Rockinger, Michael - 2014

We build a macroeconomic model for Switzerland, the Euro Area, and the USA that drives the dynamics of several asset classes and the liabilities of a representative Swiss (defined-contribution) pension fund. This encompassing approach allows us to generate correlations between returns on assets...

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Asymmetric beta comovement and systematic downside risk

Jondeau, Eric; Zhang, Qunzi - 2014

Downside-Beta Comovement and Upside-Beta Comovement is the main driving force for market level skewness. An indicator called …

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Low risk anomalies?

Schneider, Paul; Wagner, Christian; Zechner, Josef - 2019

compensation for coskewness risk. Empirically, we find that option-implied ex-ante skewness is strongly related to ex-post residual … coskewness, which allows us to construct coskewness factor mimicking portfolios. Controlling for skewness renders the alphas of … are largely driven by a single principal component, which is in turn largely explained by skewness …

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Sovereign Spreads : Global Risk Aversion, Contagion or Fundamentals?

Caceres, Carlos - 2010

Over the past year, euro area sovereign spreads have exhibited an unprecedented degree of volatility. This paper explores how much of these large movements reflected shifts in (i) global risk aversion (ii) country-specific risks, directly from worsening fundamentals, or indirectly from...

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Properties of Foreign Exchange Risk Premiums

Sarno, Lucio - 2016

We study the properties of foreign exchange risk premiums that can explain the forward bias puzzle, defined as the tendency of high-interest rate currencies to appreciate rather than depreciate. These risk premiums arise endogenously from the no-arbitrage condition relating the term structure of...

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Market-Based Monetary Policy Uncertainty

Bauer, Michael D. - 2020

An extensive literature studies the impact of monetary policy surprises---shifts in expected policy rates---on asset prices. This paper addresses the open question of how shifts in the uncertainty about future policy rates matter for the transmission of monetary policy to financial markets. To...

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Equity capital, bankruptcy risk and the liquidity trap

Levintal, Oren - 2011

This paper explains the emergence of liquidity traps in the aftermath of large-scale financial crises, as happened in the US 1930s, Japan 1990s and recently in the US and Europe. The paper introduces a new balance sheet channel that links equity capital to the risk-free interest rate. When...

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Pricing Climate Change Risks : CAPM with Rare Disasters and Stochastic Probabilities

Karydas, Christos; Xepapadeas, Anastasios - 2019

There are concerns that climate-related physical and political risks are not yet properly reflected in asset prices. To address these concerns, we develop a dynamic asset pricing framework with rare disasters related to climate change. The novelty of this paper lies in linking carbon emissions...

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