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volatility on foreign exchange markets. Starting point is the market participant's microeconomic investment decision, which is … trading volume and volatility on foreign exchange markets. We apply various two-country-models with representative market …
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explaining exchange rate movements. The asset market theory of exchange rate determination implies that exchange rates are mainly … driven by the development of macroeconomic fundamentals. Furthermore the asset market theory assumes that foreign exchange … speculation, economic theory states that speculation can have either a stabilizing effect or a destabilizing effect on exchange …
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The thesis consists of two essays: "The CAPM -- A General Equilibrium Foundation" and "The Foreign Exchange Rate in Financial Markets".The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is one of the most successful models for portfolio selection. The utility functions are assumed to depend positively on...
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-WOODS - 3. THEORIE DER ZIELZONEN - 4. WECHSELKURSSPEKULATION IM KRUGMAN-MODELL - 5. WECHSELKURSSPEKULATION IN ZIELZONEN ALS … analysed:1. INTRODUCTION - 2. THE DISCUSSION ABOUT TARGET ZONES IN THE POST BRETTON WOODS ERA - 3. TARGET ZONE THEORY - 4 …
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Over the past few decades, many countries have experienced a marked decline in the volatility of output. However, there … is still a significant difference between developed and developing countries in the level of output volatility. A … proposed explanation for this phenomenon is the impact of economic policies on output volatility in developing countries. The …
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Japan. We also test for the presence of causality-in-mean and volatility spillovers. The econometric framework is a four … found to play a role in a minority of cases, with mixed signs. Finally, most cases of volatility spillovers occur from …
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into volatility persistence in stock returns. In part two, I show that the introduction of continuous trading on the WSE is … volatility on days after limit hits and positive autocorrelation in stock returns. I do not find significant advantages of this …
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We quantify the effects on contingent claim valuation of using an estimator for the volatility of a geometric Brownian … motion (GBM) process. That is, we show what difficulties can arise when failing to account for estimation risk. Our working … problem uses a direct estimator of volatility based on the sample standard deviation of increments from the underlying …
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estimation of the marginal distributions and the dependence between the onedimensional random variables. Therefore, copulae are … used in order to carry out the estimation of the tail dependence coefficient (TDC). Four estimators of the TDC are … Extreme Value Theory (EVT) is given, which tries precisely to analyze the behavior at the tail of a bivariate distribution …
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We show that the distribution of any portfolio whose components jointly follow a location-scale mixture of normals can be characterised solely by its mean, variance and skewness. Under this distributional assumption, we derive the mean-variance-skewness frontier in closed form, and show that it...
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