Bredin, Donal; Muckley, Cal(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2009)
The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is the key policy instrument of the European Commission's Climate Change Program aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions to eight percent below 1990 levels by 2012. A ...
Cotter, John; Roll, Richard(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial MarketsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-10-28)
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are the only truly liquid assets related to real estate investments. We study the behavior of U.S. REITs over the past three decades and document their return characteristics. REITs ...
Bredin, Donal; Hyde, Stuart(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 ...
Cotter, John; Hanly, Jim(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 ...
There has recently been considerable interest in the potential adverse effects associated with
excessive uncertainty in energy futures markets. Theoretical models of investment under uncertainty
predict that increased ...
Cotter, John; Hanly, Jim(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial MarketsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-08)
Risk aversion is a key element of utility maximizing hedge strategies; however, it has
typically been assigned an arbitrary value in the literature. This paper instead applies a
GARCH-in-Mean (GARCH-M) model to estimate ...
Kearney, Colm; Muckley, Cal(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2006-06)
Using daily data for a select set of four Asian exchange rates, namely the Hong Kong dollar, the Singapore dollar, the Taiwan dollar and the Thailand baht, from October 1985 to October 2002, we apply principal
components ...
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 ...
This paper investigates the correlation dynamics in the equity markets of 13 Asia-Pacific countries, Europe and the US using the asymmetric dynamic conditional correlation GARCH model (AG-DCC-GARCH) introduced by Cappiello, ...