This paper investigates dynamic currency hedging benefits, with a further focus on the impact of currency hedging before and during the recent financial crises originated from the subprime and the Euro sovereign bonds. We take the point of view of a Euro-based institutional investor who...

We apply a non-linear setting in capturing ESG factors. The non-linear factor captures the pricing of cross-section distribution of ESG scores. We find that the factors for ESG, E, and S scores deviate from linearity. The extent of deviation depends on the type of ESG scores as well as the...

This paper examines the relationship between systemic risk measures across 546 financial institutions in major petroleum-based economies and oil movements. In this paper, we follow two steps. In the first step, we estimate the delta conditional VaR (CoVaR) for the financial institutions and...

This paper examines the relationship between oil price movements and systemic risk of many financial institutions in major petroleum-based economies. We estimate ΔCoVaR for those institutions and thereby observe the presence of elevated increases in the levels corresponding to the subprime and...

This paper shows that FED policy announcements are accompanied with a significant increase in international co-movement in the sovereign CDS market. The effect is strongest for emerging markets, when the FED relaxes unconventional monetary policies, and for countries that are open to the trading...