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Structured finance instruments represent a form of securitization technology which can be defined by the … securitization, in order to identify the economic forces underlying the creation of SF instruments. A question addressed is under … what circumstances one would expect to observe pooling alone (as with traditional securitization) versus pooling and …
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Structured finance instruments represent a form of securitization technology which can be defined by the … securitization, in order to identify the economic forces underlying the creation of SF instruments. A question addressed is under … what circumstances one would expect to observe pooling alone (as with traditional securitization) versus pooling and …
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A bank's stock price is modeled as a call option on the spread of random assets over random liabilities. The logarithm of assets and liabilities are jointly modeled as driven by four variance gamma processes and this model is estimated by calibrating to quoted equity options seen as compound...
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The paper aims to present the insurance linked securities market behaviour, that has changed a lot the past three years, both in terms of structure and in terms of ceded risks. After having introduced some stylized facts characterizing the insurance linked securities we capture their market...
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puzzling, since it implies that creating a derivative tranche in the securitization whose payoffs are identical to the CDS will … raise the underlying asset price while the CDS outside the securitization lowers it. The resolution of the puzzle is that …
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We study the market impact of a very successful financial innovation – the SPDR Gold Trust exchange-traded fund (GLD). GLD holds physical gold, and provides traders with a convenient and cost-effective way to gain exposure to gold. We find that after the introduction of GLD, the liquidity of...
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The securitization of various financial assets provides liquidity, facilitates the transfer of risk, and presents …
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This is the graduation speech I gave on receiving an honorary doctorate at the University of Athens Economics and Business School. I talk about my Greek family, about how I got interested in economics, and then how in the 1990s I came to think about default, collateral, and leverage as the...
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-2009. We study the effect of leverage, tranching, securitization and CDS on asset prices in a general equilibrium model with …, since it implies that creating a derivative tranche in the securitization whose payoffs are identical to the CDS will raise … the underlying asset price while the CDS outside the securitization lowers it. The resolution of the puzzle is that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014180051
Structured finance instruments represent a form of securitization technology which can be defined by the … securitization, in order to identify the economic forces underlying the creation of SF instruments. A question addressed is under … what circumstances one would expect to observe pooling alone (as with traditional securitization) versus pooling and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031923