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March 2020 packed 2 ½ years of normal U.S. stock market volatility into one month, making it the most volatile month on record. Daily variability clocked in at 6%, six times higher than the average over the past 90 years. How should an investor respond to such volatility? In this article we...
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How do financial markets switch from states of optimism to pessimism and vice versa? Given that a financial market is currently stable, what is the probability that it will become unstable and crash? We answer those questions in the context of a natural experiment with risk sources of...
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This paper deals with three aspects of spectacular oil price episodes such as the one witnessed in 2008. First, the concept of temporary explosiveness is proposed as an empirical method for capturing this type of behavior. The application of a recently proposed recursive unit root test shows...
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We study general equilibrium asset prices in a multi-period endowment economy when agents' risk aversion is allowed to depend on the maturity of the risk. We find horizon-dependent riskaversion preferences generate a decreasing term structure of risk premia if and only if volatility is...
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We investigate the effect of uncertainty on investment. We employ a unique dataset of 25000 Greek firms' balance sheets … uncertainty. The investment performance of 14 sectors is examined within a dynamic investment model. Robust GMM estimates of the … investment rate model reveal a high degree of heterogeneity among these sectors. Overall uncertainty affects negatively …
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fundamentalists and chartists co-exist and are subject to regret and uncertainty. We find significant evidence that energy markets are … composed by heterogeneous traders which behave differently depending on the intensity of the price fluctuations and uncertainty …
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This paper derives two new improved risk metrics LAPVaR and LAPSF. Traditional VaRDeltaNormal valuation exaggerates market and liquidity risks to the point it could be larger than the actual portfolio value. Put VaR – PVaR – as well as Put Shortfall – PSF – uses option theory to solve...
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Purpose: We investigate the nature and degree of US economic policy uncertainty spillover on the stock markets of a … to explore the nature and degree of US economic policy uncertainty spillover on the stock markets of the GCC countries ….Findings: We find that an unexpected increase in the US economic policy uncertainty significantly decreases the stock market index …
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uncertainty shocks stemming from geopolitical swings in South Korea. We construct robust instrumental variables for examining the … variations in uncertainty due to geopolitical swings by observing high-frequency changes in financial asset returns and their … uncertainty has a negative (positive) impact on macroeconomic outcomes in South Korea. We provide evidence that financial and …
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With model uncertainty characterized by a convex, possibly non-dominated set of probability measures, the investor …
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