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Although various asymmetric measures of market risk have been shown to be priced factors for the broader equity market …, life insurer realized equity returns include a much larger premium for bearing downside risk, even after controlling for … firm characteristics and other measures of risk. Cross-sectional regression analysis finds a positive (negative) premium …
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downside risk factors and controlling for life insurer characteristics. Although various asymmetric measures of market risk … larger premium for bearing downside risk, even after controlling for firm characteristics and other measures of risk. Cross …
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This study uses the universe of US public firms to examine the impact of credit default swap (CDS) trading on a firm's cost of capital during the period 2001–2018. Our results robustly show that the inception of CDSs causes a significant reduction in a firm's weighted average cost of capital...
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Based on a dataset including 11,636 private debt placements issued globally between 1999 and 2016, we investigate the association between borrower-lender information asymmetry and the cost of debt for issuers. We observe that information asymmetry due to being a private or unrated firm is...
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The Euler (or gradient) allocation technique defines a financial institution's marginal cost of a risk exposure via … calculation of the gradient of a risk measure evaluated at the institution's current portfolio position. The technique, however …, relies on an arbitrary selection of a risk measure. We reverse the sequence of this approach by calculating the marginal …
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