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

, and volatility risks, its performance presents a challenge to asset pricing models. …

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Garleanu, Nicolae Bogdan; Pedersen, Lasse Heje; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We model the demand-pressure effect on prices when options cannot be perfectly hedged. The model shows that demand pressure in one option contract increases its price by an amount proportional to the variance of the unhedgeable part of the option. Similarly, the demand pressure increases the...

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Insider Trading in Credit Derivatives

Acharya, Viral V; Johnson, Tim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Insider trading in the credit derivatives market has become a significant concern for regulators and participants. This paper attempts to quantify the problem. Using news reflected in the stock market as a benchmark for public information, we report evidence of significant incremental...

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Liquidity Risk and Correlation Risk: A Clinical Study of the General Motors and Ford Downgrade of May 2005

Acharya, Viral V; Schaefer, Stephen M; Zhang, Yili - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

The GM and Ford downgrade to junk status during May 2005 caused a wide-spread sell-off in their corporate bonds. Using a novel dataset, we document that this sell-off appears to have generated significant liquidity risk for market-makers, as evidenced in the significant imbalance in their quotes...

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Partisan Impacts on the Economy: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections

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

Political economists interested in discerning the effects of election outcomes on the economy have been hampered by the problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these problems by analyzing movements in economic indicators caused by clearly exogenous changes in...

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Reading Interest Rate and Bond Futures Options' Smiles Around the 1997 French Snap Election

Coutant, Sophie; Jondeau, Eric; Rockinger, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

The aim of this paper is to compare various methods which extract a Risk Neutral Density (RND) out of PIBOR, as well as of Notional interest rate futures options, and to investigate how traders react to a political event. We first focus on five dates surrounding the 1997 snap election and...

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Performance Maximization of Actively Managed Funds

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

Ratios that indicate the statistical significance of a fund’s alpha typically appraise its performance. A growing literature suggests that even in the absence of any ability to predict returns, holding options positions on the benchmark assets or trading frequently can significantly enhance...

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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

We investigate the predictive information content in foreign exchange volatility risk premia for exchange rate returns …. The volatility risk premium is the difference between realized volatility and a model-free measure of expected volatility … that is derived from currency options, and reflects the cost of insurance against volatility ‡fluctuations in the …

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Implied Volatility Functions: Empirical Tests

Dumas, Bernard J; Fleming, Jeff; Whaley, Robert E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

Black/Scholes constant volatility assumption is violated in practice. These authors hypothesize that the volatility of the … underlying asset’s return is a deterministic function of the asset price and time, and develop the deterministic volatility … 1993, we evaluate the economic significance of the implied deterministic volatility function by examining the predictive …

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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 … increases the volatility of stock-market returns. …

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