The interaction between rational hedgers and informed oil traders is parameterized and tested empirically with the help of a complex non linear smooth transition regime shift CCC-GARCH procedure. In spite of their gyrations, futures price changes are usually self-correcting. Well informed...

En este trabajo estudiamos cómo afecta la diversificación al riesgo específico de carteras naïves, cuyos rendimientos presentan una estructura heterocedástica en las perturbaciones aleatorias del modelo de mercado. Dado que con esta especificación no es posible recoger en un único valor...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically test dynamic hedging, using data from the FTSE-100 and Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500 futures indices. Design/methodology/approach – The authors introduce a dynamic continuous-time hedging model in futures markets. The authors further...

Despite the growing evidence that speculative assets have time-varying variances and covariances, risk management techniques have not exploited this potentially useful property. This article proposes a dynamic risk management (hedging) model that takes advantage of time dependencies present in...