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uncertainty is time-varying, and (2) countries have heterogeneous exposures to a world aggregate shock. We embed these features in …
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. Dynamically spread-weighting and risk-rebalancing positions improves performance. Equity, bond, FX, volatility, and downside …
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continues to depend strongly upon local risk factors, leading to several observations that are difficult to explain with … standard frameworks. Equity returns depend upon both domestic and global risk factors. Further, local investors tend to …
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We reconsider the empirical links between volatility and growth between 1970 and 2007. There is a strong and significant correlation between individual country growth rates and global factors that are arguably exogenous with respect to their economies. The amount of volatility driven by these...
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idiosyncratic entrepreneurial risk-- a risk that introduces, not only a precautionary motive for saving, but also a wedge between …
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today at the level of individual banks by managers, investors, and regulators. The basic analytical tool is the risk … to quantifying the effects of asset-liability mismatches within and across institutions. Risk-adjusted CCA balance sheets … facilitate simulations and stress testing to evaluate the potential impact of policies to manage systemic risk …
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Financial safety nets are incomplete social contracts that assign responsibility to various economic sectors for preventing, detecting, and paying for potentially crippling losses at financial institutions. This paper uses the theories of incomplete contracts and sequential bargaining to...
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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 same risk preferences as in ordinary investment. The paper develops …
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of the risk of trading revenues of U.S. commercial banks. We collect … quarterly data on trading revenues, broken down by business line, as well as the Value at Risk-based market risk charge. The … across business lines. These low correlations do not corroborate systemic risk concerns. Neither is there evidence that the …
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with endogenous solvency constraints. These solvency constraints are such as to prevent default at the cost of reduced risk … kernel, and compare it to the one for economies without participation constraints: interest rates are lower and risk premia …
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