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the Nigeria stock market. The EGARCH model is found to be the most efficient for forecasting volatilities and has the … years. The forecasting performance shows the volatility in the Nigeria stock market to be on the increase for the next four …
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correlation between output and aggregate uncertainty. We find the transmission of uncertainty shocks to output is weak, while … aggregate uncertainty endogenously responds to first moment shocks in the presence of labor market search frictions. This … indicates that countercyclical movements in aggregate uncertainty are endogenous responses to changes in output, rather than …
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We propose Keynesian utilities as a new class of non-expected utility functions representing the preferences of …
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I develop a stochastic growth model with production where there is a hidden state governing productivity growth regimes, and the hidden state evolves according to a Markov chain. Economic agents learn about the hidden state and display ambiguity aversion in the spirit of Klibanoff et al. (2005)....
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We use the Bayesian method introduced by Gallant and McCulloch (2009) to estimate consumption-based asset pricing models featuring smooth ambiguity preferences. We rely on semi-nonparametric estimation of a flexible auxiliary model in our structural estimation. Based on the market and aggregate...
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What people perceive as risk clearly goes beyond variance. Several papers have shown that, e.g., probability of loss …
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We use an equivalent form of Markowitz's mean-variance utility function, based on Rao's Quadratic Entropy (RQE), to …
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The goal of this study is to compare the CAPM to the Fama-French (FF) Three Factor Model and to Carhart‟s extension of the FF Model with regard to (1) statistical goodness of fit, and (2) the quality of prediction. My sample consists of actively managed domestic equity mutual funds and the...
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In this paper we consider modeling and forecasting of large realized covariance matrices by penalized vector …
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