Currency total return swaps: valuation and risk factor analysis

Abstract

Currency total return swaps (CTRS) are hybrid derivative instruments that allow us to simultaneously hedge against credit and currency risks. We develop a structural credit risk model to evaluate CTRS premia. An empirical test on a sample of 23,005 price observations from 59 underlying issuers yields an average percentage error of around 10%. This indicates that, beyond interest rate risk, firm-specific factors are major drivers of the variations in the valuation of these instruments. Regression analysis of residuals shows that exchange rate determinants account for up to 40% of model pricing errors, indicating that a currency risk premium affects the CTRS price significantly but only marginally, which confirms the prevalence of credit risk in the pricing of CTRS.     

Sovereign bond markets and financial stability in an emerging economy: an application of directed acyclic graphs and SVAR models

During the last two decades, domestic government bond markets have developed significantly in emerging economies. Although the financial sector has benefited accordingly, volatility in this market also has posed potential risks in terms of financial stability. This paper uses directed acyclic graphs and structural vector-autoregressive models to evaluate the impact of different shocks on both the public debt market and financial stability. Results suggest that inflation, the policy interest rate and indicators of risk perception are the variables that most affect the slope of the yield curve. In turn, when the slope increases, there is a positive contemporary effect on bank risk indicators.     

The Output Effect of a Transition to Price Stability When Velocity Is Time Varying

This paper explores the effect of time‐varying velocity on output responses to policies for reducing/stopping inflation. We study a dynamic general equilibrium model with sticky prices in which we introduce time‐varying velocity. Specifically, we endogenize time‐varying velocity into the model developed by Ireland (1997) for analyzing optimal disinflation. The nonlinear solution method reveals that, depending on velocity, the “disinflationary boom” found by Ball (1994) may disappear even under perfect credibility and that early output losses may be much larger than previously thought. Indeed, we find that a gradual disinflation from a low inflation may even be undesirable.     

物流金融:出现动因、发展模式与风险防范

物流金融是金融机构为降低交易成本和风险,利用物流企业提供的物流信息和物流监管,依据物流供应链而进行的金融活动.物流金融的发展模式可分为物流结算金融模式、物流仓单金融模式、物流授信金融模式和综合运作模式等.作为一种新型业务,物流金融带来了与以往不同的风险,认识并控制这些风险是物流金融开展好坏的关键.本文从物流金融的概念人手,分析了物流金融的出现动因和主要特点,以及国内外物流金融的实践情况,并对不同的物流金融发展模式潜在的风险及应对之策进行了分析.     

变电站岩溶地基的勘察设计与地基基础处理

结合湖北省某变电站在岩溶发育地基上成功建站的工程实践,介绍了岩溶地基的勘察方案、岩溶发育的规律及机理、岩溶地基的稳定性评价、岩溶发育地区变电站站址地基基础的处理以及设计中应注意的事宜等内容。实践证明：在一定的条件下,只要地基基础处理时采取的措施得当,在岩溶发育的灰岩地基上仍可修建变电站。     

Assessing targeted macroprudential financial regulation: The case of the 2006 commercial real estate guidance for banks

In January 2006, federal regulators issued guidance requiring banks with specific high concentrations of commercial real estate (CRE) loans to tighten managerial controls. This paper shows that banks with concentrations in excess of the thresholds set in the guidance subsequently experienced slower growth in their CRE portfolios than can be explained by changes in bank or economic conditions. Moreover, banks above the CRE thresholds tended to have slower commercial and industrial loan growth but faster household loan growth following issuance of the guidance. The results highlight the potentially broad influence that portfolio-based macroprudential regulation might have on bank behavior.     

Decentralized trade, random utility and the evolution of social welfare

We study decentralized trade processes in general exchange economies and house allocation problems with and without money. The processes are affected by persistent random shocks stemming from agents’ maximization of random utility. By imposing structure on the utility noise term—logit distribution—one is able to calculate exactly the stationary distribution of the perturbed Markov process for any level of noise. We show that the stationary distribution places the largest probability on the maximizers of weighted sums of the agents’ (intrinsic) utilities, and this probability tends to 1 as noise vanishes.     

基于系统分析方法的供应链风险管理

通过对供应链定义、供应链系统化特点以及供应链稳定性的考虑,提出基于系统分析方法的供应链风险管理,其中包括基于多角度分析法的供应链风险分类,基于因果分析法的企业行为审核,基于流程图法、定性等级评价法等方法的供应链风险应对体制建立。最终通过多种系统分析方法在供应链风险管理中的应用,提升了供应链系统的稳定性,有效地避免了可能发生的风险对供应链的危害。     

Heterogeneity in Economics

This paper argues that heterogeneity of agents’ characteristics plays a fundamental role in the economy and should do so in economic models. Three aspects are considered. Firstly the notion that assuming heterogeneity was a solution to the problem posed by the results of Sonnenschein Mantel and Debreu is considered and it is suggested that the more pragmatic approach adopted by Hildenbrand is likely to be more productive. Next the role of adaptation and evolution which necessarily involve variety or heterogeneity is examined. It is suggested that heterogeneity will persist since agents will only slowly learn to adapt and that in the meantime the environment will change. Lastly the role of heterogeneity in financial markets is examined. It is suggested that heterogeneous and varying expectations may account for many of the stylised facts which do not seem to be consistent with the standard financial markets model.“Variety is the spice of life”     

物流联盟稳定性的博弈分析

基于博弈理论分析了物流联盟成员之间关系的稳定性,建立了重复博弈模型,研究了物流联盟稳定性的条件。