We develop measures of certain kinds of liquidity trading risk that is useful for completing the definition of market risk and for predicting liquidity-adjusted VaR (L-VaR) under illiquid market conditions. We argue that asset liquidity risk associated with the uncertainty of liquidating...

This paper examines, from a regulatory portfolio management standpoint, the application of liquidity adjusted risk modeling in obtaining optimal and investable economic-capital structures. The newly obtained empirical results, optimization parameters and optimal and investable economic-capital...

Over the past few days, alarm bells have been ringing for the risk of recession in the world’s leading economies (Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Brazil and Mexico). Deceleration is affecting several regions in the world and might even become more widespread, exacerbating investor mistrust and...

Asset market liquidity risk is a significant and perplexing subject and though the term market liquidity risk is used quite chronically in academic literature it lacks an unambiguous definition, let alone understanding of the proposed risk measures. To this end, this paper presents a review of...

Asset market liquidity risk is a significant and perplexing subject and though the term market liquidity risk is used quite chronically in academic literature it lacks an unambiguous definition, let alone understanding of the proposed risk measures. To this end, this paper presents a review of...

In this paper, we compare and contrast financial data science with econometrics and conclude that the former is inevitably interdisciplinary due to the numerous skill-sets needed within a competitive research team. The latter, in contrast, is firmly rooted in economics. Both areas are highly...

We investigate the hypothesis that zero lower bound monetary policy has an effect on the correlations of financial assets. Using an event-study approach, we evaluate the impact of the zero lower bound monetary policies of the Bank of Japan, the Bank of England, and the Federal Reserve on the...

We employ a wavelet approach and conduct a time-frequency analysis of dynamic correlations between pairs of key traded assets (gold, oil, and stocks) covering the period from 1987 to 2012. The analysis is performed on both intra-day and daily data. We show that heterogeneity in correlations...

The goal of this paper is to analyze the effect of OTC-DVP (over the counter delivery versus payment) fixed income market introduction in Slovenia on the term structure estimation and on the volatility of zero coupon yields and forward interest rates. For the purpose of the analysis Slovenian...

An immediate consequence of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) is the absence of auto-correlation of the return series of the financial prices and the exclusion of excess profitability made by any (active) trading strategy. However, the precondition for the validity of EMH, which assumes that...