Showing 1 - 10 of 684,994
It is well-known that Gaussian hedging strategies are robust in the sense that they always lead to a cost process of … hedging instruments from a given set of traded assets, in particular of zero coupon bonds, is studied. Misspecified hedging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968401
We consider a standard two-player all-pay auction with private values, where the valuation for the object is private information to each bidder. The crucial feature is that one bidder is favored by the allocation rule in the sense that he need not bid as much as the other bidder to win the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263054
This paper provides a theoretical and numerical analysis of robust hedging strategies in diffusion?type models … including stochastic volatility models. A robust hedging strategy avoids any losses as long as the realised volatility stays …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316082
We revisit the problem of pricing and hedging plain vanilla single-currency interest rate derivatives using multiple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940386
The market model of interest rates specifies simple forward or Libor rates as lognormally distributed, their stochastic dynamics has a linear volatility function. In this paper, the model is extended to quadratic volatility functions which are the product of a quadratic polynomial and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538865
The effect of model and parameter misspecification on the effectiveness of Gaussian hedging strategies for derivative … financial instruments is analyzed, showing that Gaussian hedges in the `natural'' hedging instruments are particularly robust …. This is true for all models that imply Black/Scholes--type formulas for option prices and hedging strategies. In this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005841332
In this paper we empirically compare different term structure models when it comes to the pricing and hedging of caps … and swaptions.We analyze the influence of the number of factors on the pricing and hedging results, and investigate which … best pricing and hedging results. We use data on interest rates, and cap and swaption prices from 1995 to 1999.We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011091164
We revisit the problem of pricing and hedging plain vanilla single-currency interest rate derivatives using multiple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008457180
We document the rise and fall of an arbitrage trade among hedge funds known as the Treasury cash-futures basis trade. This trade exploited a fundamental disconnect between cash and futures prices of Treasuries. We show that in recent years a replicating portfolio of Treasury bills and futures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236065
original model are completely removed from the drMC simulation. Moreover, under the drMC framework, hedging parameters, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029895