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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial MarketsUniversity College Dublin. School of Business, 2006-11)This paper discusses the financial risks faced by the UK Pension Protection Fund (PPF) and what, if anything, it can do about them. It draws lessons from the regulatory regimes under which other financial institutions, ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004-05-30)We investigate the influence of foreign monetary policy decisions on the volatility of the Irish stock market. Specifically, we examine the influence of US monetary policy announcements on the ISEQ. We find evidence of ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2007)We examine whether hedging effectiveness is affected by asymmetry in the return distribution by applying tail specific metrics to compare the hedging effectiveness of short and long hedgers using crude oil futures contracts. ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial MarketsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-08)This paper examines the volatility and covariance dynamics of cash and futures contracts that underlie the Optimal Hedge Ratio (OHR) across different hedging time horizons. We examine whether hedge ratios calculated over ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2010-05-24)This paper investigates the risk-return relationship in determination of housing asset pricing. In so doing, the paper evaluates behavioral hypotheses advanced by Case and Shiller (1988, 2002, 2009) in studies of boom and ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial MarketsUniversity College Dublin. School of Business, 2008-03-24)
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2006)Value at risk (VaR) is a risk measure that has been widely implemented by financial institutions. This paper measures the correlation among asset price changes implied from VaR calculation. Empirical results using US and ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004-03)We examine the influence of US and UK macroeconomic and financial variables on Irish stock returns in a nonlinear framework. We allow for time variation via regime switching using a smooth transition regression (STR) ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004)We investigate the influence of international interest rate changes on the Dublin inter bank money market rates (Dibor). Specifically, we analyse the impact of (un)expected changes in German(Euro) area and US policy rates ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial MarketsUniversity College Dublin. School of Business, 2007-05-18)This paper examines the intra-day seasonality of transacted limit and market orders in the DEM/USD foreign exchange market. Empirical analysis of completed transactions data based on the Dealing 2000-2 electronic ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2009)This paper investigates the degree of both foreign exchange rate and interest rate exposure of industry level portfolios in the G7. Our paper draws on the efficient market hypothesis and examines the extent of unexpected ...
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Is macroeconomic uncertainty bad for macroeconomic performance? Evidence from five Asian countries (University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2007-03)We use a very general bivariate GARCH-M model and quarterly data for five Asian countries to test for the impact of real and nominal macroeconomic uncertainty on inflation and output growth. Our evidence supports a number ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2005)We examine the evidence of an emerging yen block in North and Southeast Asia using up to 27 years of weekly data on 9 bilateral yen exchange rates. The exchange rate returns are modelled in response to variations in their ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004-09)This paper examines the financing of 117 privately held new technology-based firms (NTBFs) in the Irish software product sector. We advance the high-technology pecking order hypothesis (HTPOH) to explain the dominance of ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004-02)We use a very general multivariate GARCH-M model and G7 monthly data covering the 1957-2003 period to test for the impact of real and nominal macroeconomic uncertainty on inflation and output growth.Our evidence supports ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2005)We use a very general bivariate GARCH-M model and EU monthly data covering the 1962-2003 period to test for the impact of real (output growth) and nominal (inflation) macroeconomic uncertainty on inflation and output growth. ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004-06-14)Both in practice and in the academic literature, models for setting margin requirements in futures markets use daily closing price changes. However, financial markets have recently shown high intraday volatility, which ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004)Key to the imposition of appropriate minimum capital requirements on a daily basis requires accurate volatility estimation. Here, measures are presented based on discrete estimation of aggregated high frequency UK futures ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004-04-18)A quantity known as the Local Cross-Entropy (LCE) for a density is proposed, defined to be the local derivative of the Cross-Entropy between a density and a ’kernel-smoothed’ version of itself, with respect to bandwidth ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial MarketsUniversity College Dublin. School of Business, 2006-11)One stylized feature of financial volatility impacting the modeling process is long memory. This paper examines long memory for alternative risk measures, observed absolute and squared returns for Daily REITs and compares ...
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