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This paper examines the effectiveness of using futures contracts as hedging instruments of: (1) alternative models of volatility for estimating conditional variances and covariances; (2) alternative currencies; and (3) alternative maturities of futures contracts. For this purpose, daily data of...
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term spread indicators, as determinants of the long-term risk of aggregated future asset prices. However, the subsequent …
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allocation and risk management require estimates of the volatility of these factors. While realized volatility has become a …
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The paper examines the performance of four multivariate volatility models, namely CCC, VARMA-GARCH, DCC and BEKK, for the crude oil spot and futures returns of two major benchmark international crude oil markets, Brent and WTI, to calculate optimal portfolio weights and optimal hedge ratios, and...
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and risk features than very simple and very complex models. Combinations of two strategies help, in particular, to reduce … risk features like volatility and largest loss, which indicates that complete densities provide useful information for risk. …
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Financial markets are seen as one of the most important markets in economic terms. The activities of investors in the financial markets consist in predicting how best to invest the accumulated capital, using all kinds of analyzes and forecasts. In the literature on the subject, apart from...
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Inter-temporal risk parity is a strategy which rebalances between a risky asset and cash in order to target a constant … level of risk over time. When applied to equities and compared to a buy and hold strategy it is known to improve the Sharpe … ratio remains constant over time, the only benefit would arise from an inter-temporal risk diversification effect which is …
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We study a continuous-time pure exchange economy where idiosyncratic cash flow risks are priced via investors' heterogeneous beliefs. Investors perceive idiosyncratic cash flow risks differently through heterogeneous subjective mean growth rates on a firm's cash flow. This impacts equilibrium...
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We use economic policy uncertainty (EPU) shocks in combination with the mixed data sampling (MIDAS) approach to investigate long-run stock market variances and correlations, primarily for the US and the UK. The US long-run stock market variance depends significantly on US EPU shocks but not on...
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about the marginal risk-neutral distributions of S&P 500 returns and of relative changes in future expected volatility (VIX …). While the bivariate risk-neutral distribution cannot be inferred from the marginals, we propose a novel identification based … on long-dated index options. We estimate the risk-neutral asymmetric volatility implied correlation and find it to be …
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