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In the face of rising climate risk, financial institutions may adapt by transferring such risk to securitizers that … to climate risk may be a drop in the ocean of cash flows. This paper builds a data set of the entire securitization chain … optimal deals by finding the portfolio weights in an asset demand system that targets return and risk. Extrapolating wildfire …
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in other financial assets. This paper investigates how this aspect of Social Security risk varies across groups of … across groups in this component of Social Security risk, as captured by the sensitivity of individual-level income growth to … changes in the SSWI. This element of risk is most important for women, especially women who are young-to-middle aged and with …
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This paper measures the mean, standard deviation, alpha and beta of venture capital investments, using a maximum …
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Typical value-at-risk (VAR) calculations involve the probabilities of extreme dollar losses, based on the statistical … VAR values that are adjusted for risk aversion, time preferences, and other variations in economic valuation. In the … context of a representative agent equilibrium model, we construct an estimator of the risk-aversion coefficient that is …
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Ranguelova that examined the implication of portfolio risk after the transition to an investment-based system has been completed … system that is completely investment-based. We model intergenerational guarantees and assess the risk of such guarantees to … combinations of taxes and saving deposits in the later years. The extra risk to retirees and/or taxpayers is relatively small …
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This paper examines the economics of investing the central trust fund of Social Security in private securities. We note that switching from a policy of having the trust fund invest solely in special issue Treasury bonds to one where some of the portfolio holds common stocks amounts to an asset...
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. First, the introduction of the Euro currency unit greatly reduces the complexity of including foreign exchange risk in asset … currency risk factors. Second, when combining the currency factors with a group of economic factors, we measure the incremental … explanatory power over and above a model that includes economic risk factors …
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The ability to identify which factors best capture systematic return covariation is central to applications of multifactor pricing models. This paper uses a common data set to evaluate the performance of various proposed factors in capturing return comovements. Factors associated with the...
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and to examine two potential explanations of the asymmetry: leverage effects and time-varying risk premiums. Our empirical …
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components of systematic and diversifiable risk. Focusing on two periods around the 1973 switch from fixed to floating exchange … increase in total volatility led to a significant increase in market risk (beta) for the multinational firms relative to the …
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