Niklas Wagner

Passau University

Professor of Finance

Innstrasse 27

Passau, 94030

Germany

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Scholarly Papers (51)

On a Model of Portfolio Selection with Benchmark

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 11 Sep 2000
Niklas Wagner
Passau University
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portfolio selection, multiattribute utility, regret, benchmark portfolio, index tracking

On a Model of Portfolio Selection with Benchmark

Journal of Asset Management, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 55-65, 2005
Posted: 23 Jul 2002
Niklas Wagner
Passau University

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portfolio selection, multiattribute utility, regret, benchmark portfolio, index tracking

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Pricing CDX Credit Default Swaps Using the Hull-White Model

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 21 Jul 2008
Bastian Hofberger and Niklas Wagner
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Passau University
Downloads 1,569 (23,274)
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CDS pricing, Hull-White model

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Private Equity Funds: Valuation, Systematic Risk and Illiquidity

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 06 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2015
Axel Buchner, Christoph Kaserer and Niklas Wagner
ESCP Business School, Technische Universität München (TUM) and Passau University
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private equity, venture capital, buyout, fund life cycle, equilibrium fund values, illiquidity and expected returns, time-varying systematic risk

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Government Intervention in Response to the Subprime Financial Crisis: The Good into the Pot, the Bad into the Crop

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 29 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 05 May 2010
Bastian Breitenfellner and Niklas Wagner
Passau University and Passau University
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financial crisis, government intervention, bailout, risk management, credit risk, credit derivatives, securitization

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Return-Volume Dependence and Extremes in International Equity Markets

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 06 Aug 2003
Terry Marsh and Niklas Wagner
Quantal International Inc. and Passau University
Downloads 1,010 (44,228)
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trading volume, return-volume dependence, mixture of distribution hypothesis, extreme returns, bivariate extremal dependence, market crashes

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Executive Pay, Free Float, and Firm Performance: Evidence from Germany

CEFS Working Paper No. 6
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 29 Mar 2005
Christoph Kaserer and Niklas Wagner
Technische Universität München (TUM) and Passau University
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Executive pay, free float, corporate control

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Local and Spillover Shocks in Implied Market Volatility: Evidence for the U.S. And Germany

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 08 Mar 2004
Alexander Szimayer and Niklas Wagner
University of Hamburg - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and Passau University
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implied volatility, volatility indices, volatility spillover, market stress, public news releases

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The Betting Against Beta Anomaly: Fact or Fiction?

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 16 Dec 2015
Axel Buchner and Niklas Wagner
ESCP Business School and Passau University
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Asset Pricing, Performance Measurement, Abnormal Return, Systematic Risk

Extreme Asymmetric Volatility: Stress and Aggregate Asset Prices

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 25 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2015
Sofiane Aboura and Niklas Wagner
Université Paris XIII Nord - Department of Economics and Management and Passau University
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market volatility, asymmetric volatility, leverage effect, volatility feedback, market stress, financial stability, systemic risk, extreme volatility, aggregate asset prices;

Extreme Asymmetric Volatility, Leverage, Feedback and Asset Prices

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2015
Sofiane Aboura and Niklas Wagner
Université Paris XIII Nord - Department of Economics and Management and Passau University

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market volatility, asymmetric volatility, leverage effect, volatility feedback, VIX, market stress, systemic market risk

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A New Family of Equity Style Indices and Mutual Fund Performance: Do Liquidity and Idiosyncratic Risk Matter?

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 28 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2011
Niklas Wagner and Elisabeth Winter
Passau University and University of Passau
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asset pricing anomalies, risk factors, mutual fund performance, idiosyncratic risk, liquidity

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Nonlinear Term Structure Dependence: Copula Functions, Empirics, and Risk Implications

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 24 Jun 2003
Markus Junker, Alexander Szimayer and Niklas Wagner
Center of Advanced European Studies and Research, Germany (CAESAR) - Financial Engineering Group, University of Hamburg - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and Passau University
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affine term structure models, nonlinear dependence, copula functions, tail dependence, value-at-risk

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Pricing CDX Credit Default Swaps with CreditGrades and Trinomial Trees

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 21 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2008
Christian Stewart and Niklas Wagner
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Passau University
Downloads 643 (80,797)
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CDS pricing, spreads, structural models, tree models

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Interest Rates, Stock Returns, and Credit Spreads: Evidence from German Eurobonds

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 12 Feb 2003
Niklas Wagner, Warren P. Hogan and Jonathan A. Batten
Passau University, University of Technology, Sydney - School of Finance and Economics and RMIT University
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Credit spreads, bond ratings, spread prediction

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Domestic Mergers and Acquisitions in BRICS Countries: Acquirers and Targets

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 11 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2017
Harald Kinateder, Matthias Fabich and Niklas Wagner
University of Passau, University of Passau and Passau University
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Announcement Returns, BRICS Countries, Emerging Markets, Event Study, Mergers and Acquisitions

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Rewarding Risk-Taking or Managerial Skill? The Case of Private Equity Fund Managers

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 24 Apr 2015
Axel Buchner and Niklas Wagner
ESCP Business School and Passau University
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Private equity, venture capital, buyout funds, fund manager compensation, risk-taking incentives

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Systematic Credit Risk: CDX Index Correlation and Extreme Dependence

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 18 Sep 2007
Sofiane Aboura and Niklas Wagner
Université Paris XIII Nord - Department of Economics and Management and Passau University
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credit risk, factor model, time-varying risk, extreme dependence

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Multiple-Period Market Risk Prediction under Long Memory: When VaR is Higher than Expected

Journal of Risk Finance (2014), Vol. 15, pp. 4-32
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 15 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2014
Harald Kinateder and Niklas Wagner
University of Passau and Passau University
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multiple-period value-at-risk, volatility scaling, long memory, GARCH, Hurst exponent, square-root-of-time rule

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Quantitative Easing and the Pricing of EMU Sovereign Debt

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 05 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2020
Harald Kinateder and Niklas Wagner
University of Passau and Passau University
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credit risk, sovereign yield spreads, monetary policy, European sovereign debt crisis, unobservable factors, time-varying heterogeneity, liquidity, systematic risk premium

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Time-Varying Moments, Idiosyncratic Risk, and an Application to Hot-Issue IPO Aftermarket Returns

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 08 Mar 2004
Niklas Wagner
Passau University
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abnormal returns, idiosyncratic risk, aftermarket stock returns

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Explaining Aggregate Credit Default Swap Spreads

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 29 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2012
Bastian Breitenfellner and Niklas Wagner
Passau University and Passau University
Downloads 430 (132,235)
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aggregate credit risk, credit default swaps, credit and stock markets, extreme spread changes, financial crisis, systemic risk, iTraxx

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Surprise Volume and Heteroskedasticity in Equity Market Returns

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 17 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2008
Niklas Wagner and Terry Marsh
Passau University and Quantal International Inc.
Downloads 360 (161,626)
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ARCH, trading volume, return volume dependence, asymmetric

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On Adaptive Tail Index Estimation for Financial Return Models

UC Berkeley Working Paper No. RPF-295
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 23 Jan 2001
Niklas Wagner and Terry Marsh
Passau University and Quantal International Inc.
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Fat-tails, tail index of stationary marginal distributions, Hill estimator, minimal AMSE

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Equities, Credits and Volatilities: A Multivariate Analysis of the European Market During the Sub-Prime Crisis

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 26 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2012
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Technische Universität München (TUM) and Passau University
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credit risk, credit default swaps, iTraxx index, vector autoregression, multivariate GARCH, BEKK

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Are Systemically Important Eurozone Banks Undercapitalized? A Stress Testing Approach

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 24 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2017
Dennis Kahlert and Niklas Wagner
University of Passau and Passau University
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Stress testing, aggregate bank risk, bank balance sheets, financial stability, systemic risk, economic capital

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Measuring Tail Thickness Under GARCH and an Application to Extreme Exchange Rate Changes

Journal of Empirical Finance, Vol. 12, 2005, UC Berkeley IBER Finance Working Paper No. 297
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 22 Jan 2003 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2009
Terry Marsh and Niklas Wagner
Quantal International Inc. and Passau University
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fat tails, tail index, stationary marginal distribution, GARCH, Hill estimator, foreign exchange

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Time-Varying Energy and Stock Market Integration in Asia

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 02 May 2017 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2020
RMIT University, University of Passau, EDHEC Business School and Passau University
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Coal; Commodities; Energy Risk; Financial Market Integration; Gas, International Asset Pricing; Market Risk; Oil; Regime Switching Model

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Oil and Stock Market Returns: Direction, Volatility, or Liquidity?

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 11 Dec 2017
Harald Kinateder and Niklas Wagner
University of Passau and Passau University
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Asymmetric Volatility, International Stock Markets, Oil Market Liquidity, Oil Market Volatility, OVX

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Is Risk Higher during Non-Trading Periods? The Risk Trade-Off for Intraday versus Overnight Market Returns

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2015
Christoph Riedel and Niklas Wagner
University of Passau and Passau University
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market risk, tail risk, downside risk, value-at-risk, intraday returns, overnight risk, stock markets, extreme returns, tail index

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Option Pricing with a Dynamic Fat-Tailed Model

Midwest Finance Association 2013 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 30 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2015
Sofiane Aboura, Sébastien Valeyre and Niklas Wagner
Université Paris XIII Nord - Department of Economics and Management, John Locke Investments and Passau University
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European-style option pricing, volatility smile, risk model

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How Do Bond, Equity and Commodity Cycles Interact?

Finance Research Letters, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 27 Jan 2017
Deakin University - School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Deakin University - Faculty of Business and Law and Passau University
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asset pricing; cross-market dependence; Granger causality; financial cycles; time-varying risk premium; commodity markets; gold; oil; market volatility

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Should Investors Buy Commodities?

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 27 Feb 2015
RMIT University, EDHEC Business School and Passau University
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Commodities, Financial Market Integration, International Asset Pricing, Systematic Risk, Market Risk

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Autoregressive Conditional Tail Behavior and Results on Government Bond Yield Spreads

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 16 Jun 2004
Niklas Wagner
Passau University
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Tail index, Pareto-model, autoregressive conditional tail, extreme financial risk, spread risk

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Can Investors Hedge Energy Risk? Evidence from Asia

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 03 May 2017
RMIT University, University of Passau, EDHEC Business School and Passau University
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Coal, Commodities, Financial Market Integration, Gas International Asset Pricing, Oil, Systematic Risk, Market Risk

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Openness Endangers Your Wealth: Noise Trading and the Big Five

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 31 Oct 2015
Jens Kleine, Jens Kleine, Niklas Wagner and Tim Weller
SDA BocconiUniversity of Applied Sciences, Munich, Passau University and Steinbeis University Berlin
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individual investors, market participation, noise trading, overconfidence, personality traits, Big Five model, Agreeableness, Extraversion, Openness

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Contingent Claims Analysis of Sovereign Default Risk in the Eurozone

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 24 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2017
Dennis Kahlert, Niklas Wagner and Ludwig Weipert
University of Passau, Passau University and University of Passau
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Structural credit risk model, jump-diffusion, first-passage time, sovereign default risk, credit contagion

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Rich Men’s Hobby or Question of Personality: Who Considers Collectibles as Alternative Investment?

Finance Research Letters, Vol. 35, 2020
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 24 Jul 2020
Jens Kleine, Jens Kleine, Thomas Peschke and Niklas Wagner
SDA BocconiUniversity of Applied Sciences, Munich, CFIN – Research Center For Financial Services and Passau University
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collectibles; alternative investments; Big Five model; personality traits; Agreeableness; Openness

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Credit Cycle Dependent Spread Determinants in Emerging Sovereign Debt Markets

Emerging Markets Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 19 Mar 2013
University of Passau, Deakin University - Faculty of Business and Law and Passau University
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sovereign bonds, sovereign spreads, sovereign credit cycle, structural models of credit risk, Eurobonds, regime switching, sovereign debt crises

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Liquidity and Conditional Market Returns: Evidence from German Exchange Traded Funds

Economic Modelling, Vol. 51, 2015
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 04 Oct 2015
Katrin Czauderna, Christoph Riedel and Niklas Wagner
University of Passau - Business Administration and Economics, University of Passau and Passau University
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market liquidity, market illiquidity, time-varying expected market returns, illiquidity measures, exchange traded funds

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Share Repurchases − Riding the Wave of Uncertainty

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 28 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2024
Passau University, RMIT University, University of Passau and Passau University
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share repurchases, uncertainty, monetary policy uncertainty, funding liquidity

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Do Liquidity Variables Improve Out-of-Sample Prediction of Sovereign Spreads during Crisis Periods?

Finance Research Letters (2017), Vol. 21, pp. 144-150
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 28 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2019
University of Passau, University of Passau and Passau University
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EMU Sovereign Debt, Forecast Evaluation, Market Liquidity, Mean Difference Test, Out-of-Sample Prediction, Predictability of Yield Spread Changes

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Addressing COP21 Using a Stock and Oil Market Integration Index

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 31 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2018
RMIT University, University of Passau, EDHEC Business School and Passau University
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Commodities, COP21, Financial Market Integration, International Asset Pricing, Market Risk, WTI Oil, Risk of Climate Change, Systematic Risk

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Estimating Financial Risk under Time-Varying Extremal Return Behavior

OR Spectrum, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2003
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 29 Jan 2017
Niklas Wagner
Passau University
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Conditional value-at-risk, Tail estimation, Frechet distribution, Time-varying Pareto-tail, Quantile prediction

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Linear and Nonlinear Growth Determinants: The Case of Mongolia and its Connection to China

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 15 Apr 2020
Amanda Chu, Zhihui Lv, Niklas Wagner and Wing-Keung Wong
The Education University of Hong Kong, Northeast Normal University - KLASMOE & School of Mathematics and Statistics, Passau University and Asia University, Department of Finance
Downloads 73 (616,364)
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP); Economic Growth; Energy Prices; Coal Prices; Consumer Prices; Foreign Direct Investment (FDI); Exchange Rates; Cointegration; Multivariate Granger Causality; Nonlinear Granger Causality

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Beating the Average: Equity Premium Variations, Uncertainty, and Liquidity

Abacus, Vol. 58, pp. 567-588, 2022
Number of pages: 1 Posted: 28 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2022
RMIT University, University of Passau and Passau University
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Certainty equivalent return, Equity premium prediction, Historical average, Liquidity, Out-of-sample forecasts, Uncertainty

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Volatility Impacts on Global Banks: Insights from the GFC, COVID-19, and the Russia-Ukraine War

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 215, 2023
Posted: 02 Oct 2023
RMIT University, EM Normandie, University of Passau, Edith Cowan University and Passau University

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Banks, Financial institutions, GSIB, Implied volatility, Pandemics, Value-at-risk, War

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Volatility Impacts on the European Banking Sector: GFC and COVID-19

Annals of Operations Research (2023), Vol. 330, pp. 335-360
Posted: 23 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 16 May 2024
RMIT University, Edith Cowan University, University of Passau and Passau University

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COVID-19, Swine Flu (H1N1), Zika virus, GFC, DCC-GARCH, Europe, Global systemically important banks, Implied volatility

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Hedging Stocks with Oil

Energy Economics, Vol. 93, 104422, 2021
Posted: 09 Mar 2021
RMIT University, University of Passau, EDHEC Business School and Passau University

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Beta-hedge, Brent oil, Commodities, Economic policy uncertainty (EPU), Hedge ratio, International asset pricing, Market risk, Systemic risk, WTI oil, VIX

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Time for Gift Giving: Abnormal Share Repurchase Returns and Uncertainty

Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 66, 101787, 2021
Posted: 02 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2020
Passau University, RMIT University, University of Passau and Passau University

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Announcement Returns, Economic Policy Uncertainty, Financial Uncertainty, Liquidity Risk, Share Repurchases, Uncertainty

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Pricing Equity-Bond Covariance Risk: Between Flight-to-Quality and Fear-of-Missing-Out

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Forthcoming
Posted: 23 Nov 2020
Patrizia Perras and Niklas Wagner
University of Passau and Passau University

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Covariance Risk, Dynamic Hedging, Equity Premium, Fear-of-Missing-Out (FOMO), Flight-to-Quality (FTQ)

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Tracking an Index with Narrow Baskets: Efficiency, Costs and Tradeoffs Involved in Optimized Portfolios

Standard and Poor's Report
Posted: 13 Oct 2009
Standard & Poor's, Passau University, Munich Financial Systems Consulting and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Portfolio Optimization, Index Tracking, Efficient Baskets, Stepwise Regression

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Equity Index Replication with Standard and Robust Regression Estimators

OR Spektrum, Vol. 22, No. 4, November 2000
Posted: 23 Feb 2001 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2009
Gunter Bamberg and Niklas Wagner
University of Augsburg - Department of Statistics and Mathematical Economic Theory and Passau University

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Approximate equity index replication, linear regression, robust estimation, non-linear estimation, tracking error