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The high cost of capital for firms conducting medical research and development (R&D) has been partly attributed to the government risk facing investors in medical innovation. This risk slows down medical innovation because investors must be compensated for it. We propose new and simple financial...
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-Granger (1995), we look at the relative information content of cash and futures prices in the market for Canadian Government bonds … using futures market data from the Montreal Exchange and OTC cash market data reflecting the inter-dealer market covered by … Trade (CBOT) futures market as well as the cash market from GovPx in the first part of the sample and subsequently from …
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derivatives markets. These hedging instruments include natural gas futures and options, as well as Exchange Traded Fund (ETF … gas spot markets, a large number of hedging strategies can be used, especially with the rapid development of natural gas … aspect of constructing optimal dynamic hedging strategies. The paper tests and calculates spillover effects among natural gas …
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oil derivatives, specifically futures, and stock index returns in UK and USA. The paper will also analyze the Chinese … results, dynamic hedging strategies will be suggested to analyze market fluctuations in crude oil prices and associated …
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Using the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Commitments of Traders data, considering both the generalized … gold and Standard & Poor's 500 futures have experienced increasing volatility persistence to shocks during the 1990s. In …. Both models, under the normal and t-distributions, support the fact that most futures returns in the 29 US markets were …
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derivatives are used for hedging, we find most active equity derivative using funds buy index derivatives to amplify market …
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This paper investigates the market pricing of subprime mortgage risk on the basis of data for the ABX.HE family of indices, which have become a key barometer of mortgage market conditions during the recent financial crisis. After an introduction into ABX index mechanics and a discussion of...
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The confluence of three trends in the U.S. residential housing market - rising home prices, declining interest rates, and near-frictionless refinancing opportunities - led to vastly increased systemic risk in the financial system. Individually, each of these trends is benign, but when they occur...
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Understanding the nature of credit risk has important implications for financial stability. Since authorities notably, central banks focus on risks that have systemic implications, it is crucial to develop ways to measure these risks. The difficulty lies in finding reliable measures of aggregate...
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This study calibrates the term structure of risk premia before and during the 2007/2008 financial crisis using a new calibration approach based on credit default swaps. The risk premium term structure was flat before the crisis and downward sloping during the crisis. The instantaneous risk...
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