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In this paper we show that free entry decisions may be socially inefficient, even in a perfectly competitive homogeneous goods market with non-lumpy investments. In our model, inefficient entry decisions are the result of risk-aversion of incumbent producers and consumers, combined with...
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, we show that agents economic hedging portfolios can be obtained by an intuitively appealing, risk aversion …-weighted approximate replication of the economic risk variables using the investment opportunity set, as opposed to the unweighted hedging …-dependent hedging adjustments with respect to one or more securities.Moreover, we analyze investors speculative positions and find that …
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Existing research on the hedging effectiveness of currency futures assumes that futures positions are continuously … adjusted. This is an unrealistic assumption in practice. In this paper we study the hedging effectiveness for futures positions … determine hedge ratios and hedging effectiveness. These are the minimum-variance model of Ederington (1979), the "-t model of …
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double barriers on to single barriers.Non-dynamic hedges overcome bulky transaction costs due to dynamic hedging trades …
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This paper tests the influence of institutional differences on risk management practices.Several survey studies have investigated derivatives usage for risk management purposes in the US (see, among others, Bodnar, Hayt, Marston and Smithson, 1995 and Bodnar, Hayt and Marston, 1996, 1998).In...
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Hedge funds databases are typicall subject to high attrition rates because of fund termination and self-selection.Even when all funds are included up to their last available return, one cannot prevent that ex post conditioning biases affect standard estimates of performance persistence.In this...
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We propose a new approach to the pricing and hedging of contingent claims under transaction costs in a general …
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study the question what an investor can do who is unwilling to spend that much, and who is ready to use a hedging strategy …
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An investor faced with a contingent claim may eliminate risk by (super-)hedging in a financial market. As this is often …
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