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Koijen, Ralph; Moskowitz, Tobias J; Pedersen, Lasse Heje; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

including global equities, global bonds, commodities, US Treasuries, credit, and options. This predictability rejects a …

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New Techniques to Extract Market Expectations from Financial Instruments

Söderlind, Paul; Svensson, Lars E O - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper is a selective survey of new or recent methods to extract information about market expectations from asset prices for monetary policy purposes. Traditionally, interest rates and forward exchange rates have been used to extract expected means of future interest rates, exchange rates...

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Option-Based Credit Spreads

Culp, Christopher L.; Nozawa, Yoshio; Veronesi, Pietro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

empirically show that indeed portfolios of long Treasuries and short traded put options ("pseudo bonds") closely match the …

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Extracting Expectations about 1992 UK Monetary Policy from Option Prices

Söderlind, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

The UK pound left the ERM on 16 September 1992 after a period of turbulence. UK monetary policy soon shifted to lower short interest rates and an inflation target was announced. This paper uses daily option prices to estimate how the market’s probability distribution of the future Deutsche...

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Interpreting Prediction Market Prices as Probabilities

Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

While most empirical analysis of prediction markets treats prices of binary options as predictions of the probability …

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Macro-Hedging for Commodity Exporters

Borensztein, Eduardo; Jeanne, Olivier; Sandri, Damiano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

commodity-exporting countries. We show that the introduction of hedging instruments such as futures and options enhances …

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Performance Maximization of Actively Managed Funds

Guasoni, Paolo; Huberman, Gur; Wang, Zhenyu - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

literature suggests that even in the absence of any ability to predict returns, holding options positions on the benchmark assets …. The enhancement from holding options can be substantial if the implied volatilities of the options are higher than the …

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The Effect of Introducing a Non-redundant Derivative on the Volatility of Stock-Market Returns

Bhamra, Harjoat Singh; Uppal, Raman - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We study the effect of introducing a new security, such as a non-redundant derivative, on the volatility of stock-market returns. Our analysis uses a standard, continuous time, dynamic, general-equilibrium, full-information, frictionless, Lucas endowment economy where there are two classes of...

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The Price of Political Uncertainty: Theory and Evidence from the Option Market

Kelly, Bryan; Pástor, Luboš; Veronesi, Pietro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

. Options whose lives span political events tend to be more expensive. Such options provide valuable protection against the risk …

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Volatility Risk Premia and Exchange Rate Predictability

Della Corte, Pasquale; Ramadorai, Tarun; Sarno, Lucio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

that is derived from currency options, and reflects the cost of insurance against volatility ‡fluctuations in the …

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