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This work aims to initiate a reflection on the awareness of environmental, social, and corporate governance issues, summarized in the acronym ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance), among Italian SMEs. The integration of ESG issues into business models has led to an expansion of the risk...
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The market evolution since the end of 2007 has been characterized by an increase of systemic risk and a high number of defaults. Realized recovery rates have been very dispersed and different from standard assumptions, while 60%-100% super-senior tranches on standard indices have started to...
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Some of the world’s largest futures exchanges impose daily limits on the price movements of individual contracts. Using data from three of the most active US commodity futures contracts, we show that these price restrictions are largely ineffective because traders are able to take similar...
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This paper analyses the intraday co-movements between returns on several commodity markets and on the stock market in the United States over the 1997-2011 period. By exploiting a new high frequency database, we compute various rolling correlations at (i) 1-hour, (ii) 5-minute, (iii) 10-second,...
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People by and large tend to postpone their present consumption for numerous reasons. This postponement of consumption leaves them with surplus money to invest for future consumption. Amongst the number of alternatives avenues present for such investments, gold too tends to be one of them. People...
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In the classical quantitative finance literature it is assumed that there is a risk free rate at which hedgers can borrow and lend in the dynamic replication process of financial derivatives. In such a framework, under complete market conditions and absence of arbitrage opportunities, for a...
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In this paper we explore the components that should be incorporated in the price of an uncolateralized derivative. We assume that one counterparty will act as the derivatives hedger while the other will act as the investor. Therefore, the derivative's price will reflect the replication costs...
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In this paper we explore the components that should be incorporated in the price of an uncolateralized derivative. We assume that one counterparty will act as the derivatives hedger while the other will act as the investor. Therefore, the derivative's price will reflect the replication costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015235822
Black et Scholes ont proposé en 1973 un modèle de marché financier qui conduit à une formule simple pour calculer le prix d'une option européenne sur un actif boursier. Bien que les formules de Black-Scholes soient explicites, le modèle repose sur certaines hypothèses qui ne correspondent...
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The theory of fair geometric returns, F theory for short, rejects the generally accepted notion that volatility is the … risk of risky assets. Instead, it claims that capital market volatility, in turn, constitutes the maximum achievable … volatility in G, is this volatility usable as part of a contrarian "buy low, sell high" strategy? If yes, how? In answer to these …
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