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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Mathematical Economics, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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We introduce and study the f”0-relevance property of a coherent measure of risk on a positions vector space with vector ordering. We show that it is equivalent to a special no arbitrage condition on bounded positions spaces. Continuity from below leads to representations of f”0-relevant coherent measures of risk based on equivalent functionals in Banach subspaces of the order dual. We define and describe f”0-martingales in a lattice, and present a solution to the hedging price problem: the asset price process is an order convergent f”0-martingale. Under the f”0-relevance hypothesis we study the relationship between worst conditional mean and value at risk.
Relevant coherent measures of risk [An article from: Journal of Mathematical Economics]
Term-Structure Models: A Graduate Course (Springer Finance)

Changing interest rates constitute one of the major risk sources for banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions. Modeling the term-structure movements of interest rates is a challenging task. This volume gives an introduction to the mathematics of term-structure models in continuous time. It includes practical aspects for fixed-income markets such as day-count conventions, duration of coupon-paying bonds and yield curve construction; arbitrage theory; short-rate models; the Heath-Jarrow-Morton methodology; consistent term-structure parametrizations; affine diffusion processes and option pricing with Fourier transform; LIBOR market models; and credit risk. The focus is on a mathematically straightforward but rigorous development of the theory. Students, researchers and practitioners will find this volume very useful. Each chapter ends with a set of exercises, that provides source for homework and exam questions. Readers are expected to be familiar with elementary Itô calculus, basic probability theory, and real and complex analysis.
Uncertain Volatility Models – Theory and Application (Springer Finance)
Why is the accrual anomaly not arbitraged away? The role of idiosyncratic risk and transaction costs [An article from: Journal of Accounting and Economics]
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Accounting and Economics, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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We show that the accrual anomaly documented by Sloan (1996) [Do stock prices fully reflect information in accruals and cash flows about future earnings? The Accounting Review 71: 289-315] is concentrated in firms with high idiosyncratic stock return volatility making it risky for risk-averse arbitrageurs to take positions in stocks with extreme accruals. Moreover, the accrual anomaly is found in low-price and low-volume stocks, suggesting that transaction costs impose further barriers to exploiting accrual mispricing.
Arbitrage pricing theory-based Gaussian temporal factor analysis for adaptive portfolio management [An article from: Decision Support Systems]
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This digital document is a journal article from Decision Support Systems, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Ever since the inception of Markowitz’s modern portfolio theory, static portfolio optimization techniques were gradually phased out by dynamic portfolio management due to the growth of popularity in automated trading. In view of the intensive computational needs, it is common to use machine learning approaches on Sharpe ratio maximization for implementing dynamic portfolio optimization. In the literature, return-based approaches which directly used security prices or returns to control portfolio weights were often used. Inspired by the arbitrage pricing theory (APT), some other efforts concentrate on indirect modelling using hidden factors. On the other hand, with regard to the proper risk measure in the Sharpe ratio, downside risk was considered a better substitute for variance. In this paper, we investigate how the Gaussian temporal factor analysis (TFA) technique can be used for portfolio optimization. Since TFA is based on the classical APT model and has the benefit of removing rotation indeterminacy via temporal modelling, using TFA for portfolio management allows portfolio weights to be indirectly controlled by several hidden factors. Moreover, we extend the approach to some other variants tailored for investors according to their investment objectives and degree of risk tolerance.
Inside the Risk Arbitrage: (A Global Review of Pairs Trading by Quant Methods

Risk Arbitrage is one of the most innovative areas of quantitative asset management. Its best quality is getting back low volatility yields poorly correlated to benchmark. This book pursues few goals. Firstly, Risk Arbitrage is placed into a theoretical framework using the Statistical Arbitrage(SA) Theory. Secondly, the most common SA strategies are shown starting from Pairs Trading (with Stochastic Approach and Cointegration Approach). The next step counts on breaking down High Frequency strategies which represent one of the most popular set of techniques in highly volatile markets. Finally, the review of SA strategies is extended to modules exploiting inefficiencies related to behavioral phenomena. The last section looks for answering the question how investors can apply SA to 130/30 products.
Market price of risk specifications for affine models: Theory and evidence [An article from: Journal of Financial Economics]
This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Financial Economics, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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We extend the standard specification of the market price of risk for affine yield models, and apply it to U.S. Treasury data. Our specification often provides better fit, sometimes with very high statistical significance. The improved fit comes from the time-series rather than cross-sectional features of the yield curve. We derive conditions under which our specification does not admit arbitrage opportunities. The extension has extremely strong statistical significance for affine yield models with multiple square-root type variables. Although we focus on affine yield models, our specification can be used with other asset pricing models as well.
Predicting successful takeovers and risk arbitrage.: An article from: Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics
This digital document is an article from Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, published by University of Nebraska-Lincoln on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 6960 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Predicting successful takeovers and risk arbitrage.
Author: Ben Branch
Publication: Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2003
Publisher: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Volume: 42 Issue: 1-2 Page: 3(16)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
Costly arbitrage and the myth of idiosyncratic risk [An article from: Journal of Accounting and Economics]
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Accounting and Economics, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Transaction and holding costs make arbitrage costly. Mispricing exists to the extent that arbitrage costs prevent rational traders from fully eliminating inefficiencies. Although the relation between mispricing and transaction costs is well-known, the relation between mispricing and holding costs is misunderstood. One holding cost, idiosyncratic risk, is particularly misunderstood. Various myths are debunked, including the common myth that idiosyncratic risk matters because arbitrageurs only have access to a small number of projects [Shleifer and Vishny, 1997. The limits of arbitrage. The Journal of Finance 52, 35-55.]. The literature demonstrates that idiosyncratic risk is the single largest cost faced by arbitrageurs.
Risk management implications of time-inconsistency: Model updating and recalibration of no-arbitrage models [An article from: Journal of Banking and Finance]
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Banking and Finance, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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A widespread approach in the implementation of asset pricing models is based on the periodic recalibration of its parameters and initial conditions to eliminate any conflict between model-implied and market prices. Modern no-arbitrage market models facilitate this procedure since their solution can usually be written in terms of the entire initial yield curve. As a result, the model fits (by construction) the interest rate term structure. This procedure is, however, generally time inconsistent since the model at time t=0 completely specifies the set of possible term structures for any t>0. In this paper, we analyze the pros and cons of this widespread approach in pricing and hedging, both theoretically and empirically. The theoretical section of the paper shows (a) under which conditions recalibration improves the hedging errors by limiting the propagation of an initial error, (b) that recalibration introduces time-inconsistent errors that violate the self-financing argument of the standard replication strategy. The empirical section of the paper quantifies the trade-off between (a) and (b) under several scenarios. First, we compare this trade-off for two economies with and without model specification error. Then, we discuss the trade-off when the underlying economy is not Markovian.

