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(University College Dublin Geary Institute, 2012-08)In this paper, we explore the impact of investor time-horizon on an optimal downside hedged energy portfolio. Previous studies have shown that minimum-variance hedging effectiveness improves for longer horizons using variance ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2005-07-24)Mixed results have been documented for the performance of hedging strategies using futures. This paper reinvestigates this issue using an extensive set of performance evaluation metrics across seven international markets. ...
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(Routledge, 2004)This paper applies extreme value theory to measure downside risk for European equity markets. Two related measures, value at risk and the excess loss probability estimator provide a coherent approach to optimally protect ...
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(Global Association of Risk Professionals, 2000)Accurate forecasting of risk is the key to successful risk management techniques. Correct modelling of a variable's extreme values located at the distributional tails accounting for the fat-tail phenomena is paramount, and ...
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(Wiley, 2006)Mixed results have been documented for the performance of hedging strategies with the use of futures. This article reinvestigates this issue with the use of an extensive set of performance-evaluation metrics across seven ...
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(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-03-07)This paper investigates the hedging effectiveness of a dynamic moving window OLS hedging model, formed using wavelet decomposed time-series. The wavelet transform is applied to calculate the appropriate dynamic minimum-variance ...
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(Irish Bankers' Federation, 2004)This paper assesses the viability of the Irish Stock Exchange. Overall the prognosis is positive with a few notable exceptions. On the downside some trading characteristics including thin trading and an uncompetitive ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2007-03-11)Spectral risk measures are attractive risk measures as they allow the user to obtain risk measures that reflect their risk-aversion functions. To date there has been very little guidance on the choice of risk-aversion ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial MarketsUniversity College Dublin. School of Business, 2008-10-06)Risk is an inherent feature of agricultural production and marketing and accurate measurement of it helps inform more efficient use of resources. This paper examines three tail quantile-based risk measures applied to the ...