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Während die Markpreisrisiken (Zinsen, Aktien und Währungen) mit Hilfe des RiskMetrics-Ansatzes gut beschrieben werden können und dafür relativ überzeugende Derivate zur Absicherung unerwünschter Risiken zur Verfügung stehen, hat diese Entwicklung im Kreditbereich erst begonnen. Bei der...
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In den letzten Jahren hat eine intensive Entwicklung von Kreditderivaten begonnen.Im Kern soll hiermit die Möglichkeit geschaffen werden, das Adressenrisiko einer Transaktion von ihrem Marktrisiko zu separieren und es damit einzeln handelbar, aber insbesondere auch hedgebar zu machen. Die...
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Due to the capital decree legislated by the Bank of Slovenia, Slovenian commercial banks can apply internal models for …
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Private investors increasingly use passive investment strategies, i.e. investment methods that try to replicate a stock market index as accurate as possible. In this paper we compare retail index certificates and exchange traded funds. Both investment products promise a performance that...
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The paper deals with the evaluation of Collateralized Debt Obligations for investment purposes. CDOs are classified in the asset backed environment. Its specific risks (market, timing, recovery, agency) are discussed. To understand the portfolio aspect, the concept of the diversity score is...
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In this paper we propose a subsampling estimator for the distribution of statistics diverging at either known rates when the underlying time series in strictly stationary abd strong mixing. Based on our results we provide a detailed discussion how to estimate extreme order statistics with...
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The role of information’s processing in bank intermediation is a crucial input. The bank has access to different types … a bank relationship, is qualitative and non verifiable, therefore manipulable, but produces more precise estimation of … to the banker but requires particular organizational modifications within the bank, as it allows to reduce capital …
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We examine whether hedging effectiveness is affected by asymmetry in the return distribution by applying tail specific metrics to compare the hedging effectiveness of short and long hedgers using Oil futures contracts. The metrics used include Lower Partial Moments (LPM), Value at Risk (VaR) and...
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The value at risk (VaR) represents an estimate, at a certain level of probability and under normal conditions of the market, for the maximal level of value loss that may be recorded by a portfolio of financial assets over an established time horizon. Originally, the VaR methodology has been used...
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Agricultural firms that use Value at Risk (VaR) tend to be the large diversified corporations. The benefits of VaR in the agricultural industry are not limited to large conglomerates; however, and this study provides empirical examples of how mid to large sized commodity end-users can use VaR to...
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