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A robust model for natural gas prices should simultaneously capture the observed prices of both futures and options. While incorporating a seasonal factor in the convenience yield of the spot price effectively replicates forward curves, it proves insufficient for accurately modelling the options...
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The combination of stochastic derivative pricing models and downside risk measures often leads to the paradox (risk … expected returns and very negative downside risk (henceforth "golden strategy") has only been studied if all the involved … multi-asset golden strategies for both the expected shortfall and the expectile risk measure, and shows that the use of …
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The present study aims at modelling market risk for four commodities, namely West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil … Conditional Auto-Regressive Logit (CARL) models to predict risk measures for the futures return series of the considered … models in order to predict the probability of tail events and the Value-at-Risk and the Expected Shortfall risk measures for …
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Over the last years, farmers have been increasingly exposed to income risk due to the volatility of the commodities … analyzing the hedging effectiveness for soybean, corn and milling wheat producers in Italy. Following the literature, three … unhedged portfolio for assessing the income risk reduction. Findings confirm the hedging effectiveness of futures contracts for …
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In this work, we adapt a Monte Carlo algorithm introduced by Broadie and Glasserman in 1997 to price a π-option. This method is based on the simulated price tree that comes from discretization and replication of possible trajectories of the underlying asset's price. As a result, this algorithm...
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I document a sizeable bias that might arise when valuing out of the money American options via the Least Square Method proposed by Longstaff and Schwartz (2001). The key point of this algorithm is the regression-based estimate of the continuation value of an American option. If this regression...
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ready-made approaches to risk management analysis. However, EVT is usually applied to standardized returns to offer more …
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This paper presents an integrated risk management methodology for measuring and managing the economics, risks, and … framework, we develop valuation and risk models for all financial products on the bank's balance sheet. Our proposed methodology … often rely on fragmented and siloed risk management solutions, our approach integrates risk modeling across all aspects of …
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This paper investigates the risk exposure for options and proposes MaxVaR as an alternative risk measure which captures … the risk better than Value-at-Risk especially. While VaR is a measure of end-of-horizon risk, MaxVaR captures the interim … risk exposure of a position or a portfolio. MaxVaR is a more stringent risk measure as it assesses the risk during the risk …
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Hedging downside risk before substantial price corrections is vital for risk management and long-only active equity … manager performance. This study proposes a novel methodology for crafting timing signals to hedge sectors' downside risk …
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