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Yesterday's Heroes : Compensation and Creative Risk-Taking
Cheng, Ing-Haw - 2010
We study the relationship between compensation and risk-taking among finance firms using a neglected insight from principal-agent contracting with hidden action and risk-averse agents. If the sensitivity of pay to stock price or slope does not vary with stock price volatility, then total...
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Fund Managers, Career Concerns, and Asset Price Volatility
Guerrieri, Veronica - 2009
We propose a model where investors hire fund managers to invest either in risky bonds or in riskless assets. Some … managers have superior information on the default probability. Looking at the past performance, investors update beliefs on … their managers and make firing decisions. This leads to career concerns which affect investment decisions, generating a …
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Execution Risk
Engle, Robert - 2006
Transaction costs in trading involve both risk and return. The return is associated with the cost of immediate execution and the risk is a result of price movements during a more gradual trading. The paper shows that the trade-off between risk and return in optimal execution should reflect the...
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Investor Behavior and the Purchase of Company Stock in 401(k) Plans - The Importance of Plan Design
Liang, Nellie - 2002
Using panel data for nearly 1,000 companies during 1991 to 2000, this paper documents that the average share of participant's discretionary 401(k) contributions in company stock was almost 20 percent, and then relates this share to plan design features and firm financial characteristics. We find...
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The empirical foundations of the arbitrage pricing theory
Lehmann, Bruce Neal; Modest, David M. - 1985
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Portfolios dominating indices : optimization with second-order stochastic dominance constraints vs. minimum and mean variance portfolios
Keçeci, Neslihan Fidan; Kuzmenko, Viktor; Uryasev, Stan - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 9 (2016) 4, pp. 1-14
The paper compares portfolio optimization with the Second-Order Stochastic Dominance (SSD) constraints with mean-variance and minimum variance portfolio optimization. As a distribution-free decision rule, stochastic dominance takes into account the entire distribution of return rather than some...
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Application of vine copulas to credit portfolio risk modeling
Geidosch, Marco; Fischer, Matthias - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 9 (2016) 2, pp. 1-15
In this paper, we demonstrate the superiority of vine copulas over conventional copulas when modeling the dependence structure of a credit portfolio. We show statistical and economic implications of replacing conventional copulas by vine copulas for a subportfolio of the Euro Stoxx 50 and the...
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The two defaults scenario for stressing credit portfolio loss distributions
Tasche, Dirk - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 9 (2016) 1, pp. 1-18
The impact of a stress scenario of default events on the loss distribution of a credit portfolio can be assessed by determining the loss distribution conditional on these events. While it is conceptually easy to estimate loss distributions conditional on default events by means of Monte Carlo...
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Stock investment and excess returns : a critical review in the light of the efficient market hypothesis
Qianwei, Ying; Yousaf, Tahir; Ul Ain, Qurat; Akhtar, Yasmeen - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 12 (2019) 2/97, pp. 1-22
diverged from their intrinsic value. This paper presents an analysis of anomaly returns in the presence of the theory of the …
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Defined contribution pension plans : who has seen the risk?
Forsyth, Peter A.; Vetzal, Kenneth R. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 12 (2019) 2/70, pp. 1-27
The trend towards eliminating defined benefit (DB) pension plans in favour of defined contribution (DC) plans implies that increasing numbers of pension plan participants will bear the risk that final realized portfolio values may be insufficient to fund desired retirement cash flows. We compare...
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