The early years of the 21st century have been a difficult and challenging time for the managed
funds industry. The neglected history of managed funds reveals prior episodes of sustained growth,
questionable practices, ...
Regardless of the form of restructuring, deregulated electricity industries share one common feature: the absence of any
significant, rapid demand-side response to the wholesale (or, spot market) price. For a variety of ...
Cotter, John(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004)
Accurate volatility modelling is paramount for optimal risk management practices. One stylized feature of financial volatility that impacts the modelling process is long memory explored in this paper for alternative risk ...
Cotter, John(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004)
Accurate forecasting of risk is the key to successful risk management techniques.
Using the largest stock index futures from twelve European bourses, this paper
presents VaR measures based on their unconditional and ...
Hogan, Teresa; Hutson, Elaine(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004)
Using a sample of 117 Irish software companies, we examine the capital structure of new technology-based firms. Consistent with the findings on financing for other small businesses, internal funds are the most important ...
Cotter, John(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004)
In recent years the finance industry from an academic and practitioner perspective has
placed heavy emphasis on the analysis of volatility models. This is understandable
given the importance that volatility plays for ...
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 ...
We examine the return distributions of 332 funds of hedge funds and associated indices.
Over half of the sample is significantly skewed according to the skewness statistic, and these are split 50/50 positive and negative. ...
Cotter, John(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 ...
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 ...