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producers have hedging demands for commodity futures. Increases in producers' hedging demand or speculators' capital constraints … increase hedging costs via price-pressure on futures. These in turn affect producers' equilibrium hedging and supply decision … 2010. The component of the commodity futures risk premium associated with producer hedging demand rises when speculative …
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standard price hedge ratios for a wide class of contingent claims are model-free. Since options on traded assets are normally … has important implications for the hedging literature. However, standard price hedge ratios are not always the optimal … for scale-invariant models. Our theoretical results are supported by an empirical study that compares the hedging …
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on the performance of standard and minimum-variance hedging of vanilla options on the FTSE 100 index. Simple adjustments …-vega hedging and they are robust to varying the option maturities and moneyness, and to different market regimes. On the …
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consistently and significantly improve on implied BSM delta hedging, for options of all moneyness and maturities and whether … rebalancing is daily, weekly or fortnightly. For most options and over all hedging horizons the regime-dependent smile …Most research on option hedging has compared the performance of delta hedges derived from different stochastic …
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consistently and significantly improve on implied BSM delta hedging, for options of all moneyness and maturities and whether … rebalancing is daily, weekly or fortnightly. For most options and over all hedging horizons the regime-dependent smile …Most research on option hedging has compared the performance of delta hedges derived from different stochastic …
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speculators are capital constrained, and commodity producers have hedging demands for commodity futures. Increases (decreases) in … producers' hedging demand (speculators' risk-capacity) increase hedging costs via price-pressure on futures, reduce producers … associated with producer hedging demand rises when speculative activity reduces. We conclude that limits to financial arbitrage …
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Derivatives exposures across large financial institutions often contribute to - if not necessarily create - systemic risk. Current reporting standards for derivatives exposures are nevertheless inadequate for assessing these systemic risk contributions. In this paper, I explain how a...
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We study the exposure of the US corporate bond returns to liquidity shocks of stocks and Treasury bonds over the period 1973 - 2007 in a regime - switching model. In one regime, liquidity shocks have mostly insignificant effects on bond prices, whereas in another regime, a rise in illiquidity...
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This paper examines the ability of several different continuous-time one- and two-factor jump-diffusion models to capture the dynamics of the VIX volatility index for the period between 1990 and 2010. For the one-factor models we study affine and non-affine specifications, possibly augmented...
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This paper examines the ability of several different continuous-time one and two-factor jump-diffusion models to capture the dynamics of the VIX volatility index for the period between 1990 and 2010. For the one-factor models we study affine and non-affine specifications, possibly augmented with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010838038