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Changes in net positions of foreign and local investors in the forward market may have differential effects on the spot exchange rate. This paper assesses the role of different sectors in the derivatives market and their potential impact with other fundamentals on the spot exchange rate in...
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This paper estimates a bivariate HEAVY system including daily and intra-daily volatility equations and its macro-augmented asymmetric power extension. It focuses on economic factors that exacerbate stock market volatility and represent major threats to financial stability. In particular, it...
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strategies, affects financial performance when risk is measured. We use the MA rule for market timing, that is, for when to buy … stocks and when to shift to the risk-free rate. The important issue regarding the predictability of returns is assessed. It …
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In this paper we test the hypothesis that the economic transition toward a market economy increases the efficiency of firms. We study 32 Polish electricity distribution companies between 1997-2002, by applying common benchmarking methods to the panel: the nonparametric data envelopment analysis...
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commodities and biofuel helps commodity suppliers hedge their portfolios, and manage the risk and co-risk of their biofuel and … should be considered as viable futures products in financial portfolios for risk management. …
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We propose a nonparametric Bayesian approach for conducting inference on probabilistic surveys. We use this approach to study whether U.S. Survey of Professional Forecasters density projections for output growth and inflation are consistent with the noisy rational expectations hypothesis. We...
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In this paper, we investigate how climate risk impacts the sovereign risk, the stock market evolution, and the degree … as a percentage of GDP. Moreover, the climate risk leads to an increase in sovereign risk only across inferior quantiles … competitiveness of a country is influenced to a small extent by the level of climate risk. This could be a consequence of concerns …
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We investigate the causal structure of financial systems by accounting for contemporaneous relationships. To identify structural parameters, we introduce a novel non-parametric approach that exploits the fact that most financial data empirically exhibit heteroskedasticity. The identification...
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. Finally, portfolio Value-at-Risk forecasts during the central hours of the day improve during crisis periods compared to the …
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This study reconsiders the role of jumps for volatility forecasting by showing that jumps have a positive and mostly significant impact on future volatility. This result becomes apparent once volatility is separated into its continuous and discontinuous component using estimators which are not...
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