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We apply a two-step strategy to forecast the dynamics of the volatility surface implicit in option prices to all American-style options written on the stocks that have entered the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index between 2004 and 2016. We explore whether the implied volatilities extracted...
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hedge ratio. Extensive out-of-sample tests give insights in the practice of hedging various cryptos and crypto indices … dependence structures between BTC-not-involved assets and the futures. As a consequence, results of hedging other assets and …
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This article presents a quadratic hedging framework for a general class of discrete-time affine multi-factor models and … hedging performance. A semi-explicit hedging formula is derived for our general framework which applies to a myriad of the … modelling features on the hedging effectiveness of S&P 500 options. Overall, we find that fat tails can be credited for half of …
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optimal policyholder behaviour. The binomial model results in explicitly formulated perfect hedging strategies funded using … policy holder mortality and death benefits. Pricing, hedging, and the decompositions of the contract are extended to … incorporate mortality risk. We prove limiting results for the hedging strategies and demonstrate mortality risk diversification …
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This article develops a Hedging Algebraic Model (HAM) for equity index portfolios with stock index futures as an … models used to date for the calculation of the optimal hedging ratio do not include the effect of discrete dividend payouts … presented here as an alternative approach to econometrics models yields superior results, both in hedging efficacy and in the …
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rainfall risk than the rainfall bonds and the capital requirement for an effective hedging of the rainfall insurance portfolio …
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The financial crisis has raised concerns throughout the industry on the possibility that hedging credit valuation … products break down. So, we provide an estimation of the basis risk that arises when hedging credit portfolios with different …
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Regardless of the distributions of spot and futures returns, the hedge ratio determined by minimizing the portfolio's Aumann and Serrano (2008) index of riskiness is always smaller than the hedge ratio determined by minimizing the portfolio's variance. It is also demonstrated that the Foster and...
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Customizing the optimal derivative written on an “instrument” risk to hedge an exogenous pecuniary risk is only examined in a few works assuming specific objective function and/or distribution of the risks. We show that this problem is closely-related to a previously un-examined...
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To find out whether the model misspecification matters for hedging accuracy, we carefully select six increasingly …) Heston types, with or without jump-diffusion) with randomly given well-defined parameters. We access the hedging accuracy of … six models under the dynamic hedging framework of He et al. (2006) and Kennedy et al. (2009), and apply the Fourier …
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