We use an expected utility framework to integrate the hedge funds survival uncertainty into an asset allocation optimizartion model. The addition of investment constraints complicates the resolution of the optimal allocation problem. It is solved using a genetic algorithm that mimics the...

In this article, we study the effect of liquidity risk on the performanceof various hedge fund portfolio strategies. The portfolio strategies in eachhedge fund style are formed by incorporating predictability in: (i) managerialskills, (ii) fund risk loadings, and (iii) benchmark returns. As...

Some people are motivated by the non-selfish, non-strategic, and non-consequentialist “sacredvalue” of Truth. We conduct the first experiment directly assessing this phenomenon. We findthat people differ substantially in their truthfulness, with a large minority powerfully inclined...

We investigate the effects of margining, a widely-used mechanism to attach collateral to derivatives contracts, on derivatives' trading volume, default risk, and on the welfare in the banking sector. First, we develop a stylized banking sector equilibrium model to derive a set of testable...

In this note we describe some important default risk mitigation mechanisms employed in derivatives markets. We focus on those mitigation mechanisms that differ across contracts traded in today's derivatives markets. We analyze netting, margining, rehypothecation, and central counterparties

By attaching collateral to a derivatives contract, margining supposedly reduces default risk. In this paper, we first develop a set of testable hypotheses about the effects of margining on banks' welfare, trading volume, and default risk in the context of a stylized banking sector equilibrium...

In this paper, we use a continuous-time contingent claims framework to study managers' incentives to cheat in the presence of equity-based compensation policies. When we consider a fully predictable legal process, we observe that managers will always have incentives to engage in illicit...

In spite of the fact that they can draw on a larger, more liquid and more diversified pool of capital than the equity of reinsurance companies, financial markets have failed to displace reinsurance as the primary risk-sharing vehicle for natural catastrophe risk. We show that this failure can be...

In this study, we first estimate the level of financial integration for twenty five emerging stock markets over the last decade. Using a multivariate GARCH(1,1)-M return generating model allowing for partial market integration as well as for the pricing of systematic emerging market risk, we...

We build a structural two-factor model of default where the stock market index is one of the stochastic factors. We allow the firm to adjust its leverage ratio in response to changes the business climate, for which the past performance of the stock market index acts as a proxy. We assume that...