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Our objective is to understand the trading strategy that would allow an investor to take advantage of quot;excessivequot; stock price volatility and quot;sentimentquot; fluctuations. We construct a general equilibrium model of sentiment. In it, there are two classes of agents and stock prices...
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Firms differ in the extent to which they 'pass through' changes in exchange rates into foreign currency prices and in their 'exposure' to exchange rates - the responsiveness of their profits to changes in exchange rates. Because pricing affects profitability, a firm's pass-through and exposure...
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Black and Scholes (1973) implied volatilities tend to be systematically related to the option's exercise price and time to expiration. Derman and Kani (1994), Dupire (1994), and Rubinstein (1994) attribute this behavior to the fact that the Black-Scholes constant volatility assumption is...
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Implied volatility quot;smilesquot; have been documented in a number of option markets worldwide. The volatilities implied by the Black-Scholes (1973) model tend to be systematically related to the option's exercise price and time to expiration. Derman and Kani (1994), Dupire (1994), and...
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Our objective is to identify the trading strategy that would allow an investor to take advantage of quot;excessivequot; stock price volatility and quot;sentimentquot; fluctuations. We construct a general-equilibrium model of sentiment. In it, there are two classes of agents and stock prices are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759836
The distinction between domicile and place of business is becoming more and more relevant as a growing number of firms have activities abroad. In most statistical studies of international stock returns, a firm is included in a country's index if its headquarters are located in that country. This...
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We construct recursive solutions for, and study the properties of the dynamic equilibrium of an economy with three types of agents: (i) house- hold/investors who supply labor with a finite elasticity, consume a large variety of goods that are not perfect substitutes and trade government bonds;...
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In a production economy with trade in financial markets motivated by the desire to share labor-income risk and to speculate, we show that speculation increases volatility of asset returns and investment growth, increases the equity risk premium, and reduces welfare. Regulatory measures, such as...
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We incorporate trading fees into a dynamic, multi-agent general-equilibrium model in which traders optimally decide when to trade. For that purpose, we propose an innovative algorithm that synchronizes the traders. Securities prices are not affected by the payment of the fees itself, but rather...
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We develop an international financial market model in which domestic and foreign residents differ in their beliefs about the information content in public signals. We determine how informational advantages by domestic investors in the interpretation of home public signals impact equity markets....
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