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Toxic arbitrage
Foucault, Thierry; Kozhan, Roman; Tham, Wing Wah - 2015
Short lived arbitrage opportunities arise when prices adjust with a lag to new information. They are toxic because they … expose dealers to the risk of trading at stale quotes. Hence, theory implies that more frequent toxic arbitrage opportunities … triangular arbitrage. As predicted, illiquidity is higher on days when the fraction of toxic arbitrage opportunities and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010499534
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Risk Arbitrage, A Probabilistic Approach Over 1998-2010 in the US and Canada
Dieudonne, Stephane - 2010
This document is a quantitative analysis of risk arbitrage strategy across a sample of 1,911 M&A deals announced … risk arbitrage spread calculated over the first five days following the announcement of the bid. Ultimately, it is hoped …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135952
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No good deals - no bad models
Boyarchenko, Nina; Cerrato, Mario; Crosby, John; … - 2012
Faced with the problem of pricing complex contingent claims, investors seek to make their valuations robust to model uncertainty. We construct a notion of a modeluncertainty-induced utility function and show that model uncertainty increases investors' effective risk aversion. Using this utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009679505
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Is ESG a Systematic Risk Factor for US Equity Mutual Funds?
Jin, Ick - 2021
Although the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) has gained increasing attention among investors, the extent to which ESG is compensated systematically in the market remains to be investigated. On the outperformance of responsible investing (RI) which incorporates ESG into investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252157
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Explaining asset pricing puzzles associated with the 1987 market crash
Benzoni, Luca; Collin-Dufresne, Pierre; Goldstein, Robert S. - 2010
The 1987 market crash was associated with a dramatic and permanent steepening of the implied volatility curve for equity index options, despite minimal changes in aggregate consumption. We explain these events within a general equilibrium framework in which expected endowment growth and economic...
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Size-Portfolio Idiosyncratic Volatility with Aggregate Return, Cross-Sectional Return, and GDP Growth : U.S. and International Evidence
Kuo, Chris - 2011
Firm size is an essential factor in examining the relation between returns and idiosyncratic volatilities. This paper documents that, when the idiosyncratic volatility is specified by firm size, the size-portfolio idiosyncratic volatility is statistically significant in explaining the future...
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Creative destruction and asset prices
Grammig, Joachim; Jank, Stephan - 2013
We relate Schumpeter's notion of creative destruction to asset pricing, thereby offering a novel explanation of size and value premia. We argue that small-value firms are more likely to be destroyed by serendipitous invention activity, and investors demand higher expected returns for bearing...
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Measures of aggregate credit conditions and their potential use by central banks
García, Alejandro; Prokopiw, Andrei - 2009
Understanding the nature of credit risk has important implications for financial stability. Since authorities notably, central banks focus on risks that have systemic implications, it is crucial to develop ways to measure these risks. The difficulty lies in finding reliable measures of aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289723
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Measures of aggregate credit conditions and their potential use by central banks
García, Alejandro; Prokopiw, Andrei - 2009
Understanding the nature of credit risk has important implications for financial stability. Since authorities notably, central banks focus on risks that have systemic implications, it is crucial to develop ways to measure these risks. The difficulty lies in finding reliable measures of aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933233
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Recent Developments in Financial Risk and the Real Economy
Dew-Becker, Ian; Giglio, Stefano - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper reviews recent developments in macro and finance on the relationship between financial risk and the real economy. We focus on three specific topics: the term structure of uncertainty, time variation - and specifically the long-term decline - in the variance risk premium, and time...
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