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Many electricity markets exhibit an oligopolistic structure with market participants whose individual trading activities may shift prices essentially. In this context, the question of how to optimally liquidate an existing electricity futures portfolio over a fixed time horizon under the...
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We derive robust good-deal hedges and valuations under combined model ambiguity about the drift and volatility of asset …-arbitrage bounds. In mathematical terms, it demands however that not just ambiguities about the volatility but also about the drift …
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We use options and return data to decompose unconditional risk premia into different parts of the return state space. In the data, the entire equity premium is attributable to monthly returns below -11.3%, but returns in the extreme left tail matter very little. In contrast, leading asset...
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theory, predicting that greater risk reduces contestants' incentives to exert effort. Moreover, the equilibrium prize spread …
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&A announcements are associated with more positive abnormal returns when market uncertainty as measured by the CBOE Volatility Index is …
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Within the context of expected utility and in a discrete loss setting, we provide a complete account of the demand for insurance by strictly-risk averse agents and risk-neutral firms when they enjoy limited liability. When exposed to a bankrupting, binary loss and under actuarially fair prices,...
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This paper explores a one-period model for a firm that finances its operations through debt provided by heterogeneous creditors. Creditors differ in their beliefs about the firm's investment outcomes. We show the existence of Stackelberg equilibria in which the firm holds cash reserves in order...
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The zero-coupon yield curve is a common input for most financial purposes. The authors consider three popular yield curve datasets, and explore the extent to which the decision as to what dataset to use for an application may have implications on the results. The paper illustrates why such...
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Asset owners (principals) typically do not manage their own investments and leave this job to delegated managers (agents). What is best for the asset owner, however, is usually not best for the fund manager. Additional agency conflicts arise when the asset owner does not know the quality and...
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This study introduces a novel index based on expectations concordance for explaining stock-price volatility when novel … market volatility. Lower expectations concordance produces a stabilizing effect wherein the offsetting views reduce market … volatility. The empirical findings hold for ex post and ex ante measures of volatility and for OLS and GARCH estimates. …
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