Walter Distaso

Imperial College Business School

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South Kensington Campus

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London SW7 2AZ, SW7 2AZ

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Macroeconomic Determinants of Stock Market Volatility and Volatility Risk-Premiums

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 12-18
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 14 Feb 2012
Valentina Corradi, Walter Distaso and Antonio Mele
University of Warwick - Department of Economics, Imperial College Business School and University of Lugano
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Aggregate stock market volatility, volatility risk-premiums, volatility of volatility, business cycle, no-arbitrage restrictions, simulation-based inference

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Corruption and Referee Bias in Football: The Case of Calciopoli

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 13 Feb 2012
Walter Distaso, Leone Leonida, Dario Maimone Ansaldo Patti, Dario Maimone Ansaldo Patti and Pietro Navarra
Imperial College Business School, University of London, University of EssexUniversity of Messina and University of Messina - Institute of Economics and Finance
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referee bias, contest success function, economics of sport

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Platform Competition and Broadband Uptake: Theory and Empirical Evidence from the European Union

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 17 Aug 2004
Walter Distaso, Paolo Lupi and Fabio M. Manenti
Imperial College Business School, AGCOM - Italian Communication Regulatory Authority and University of Padua - Department of Economics and Management
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Broadband, inter-platform and intra-platform competition, local loop unbundling

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Static and Dynamic Efficiency in the European Telecommunications Market: The Incentives to Invest and the Ladder of Investment

HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT - (AEBR) Book Series, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 23 Dec 2008
Walter Distaso, Paolo Lupi and Fabio M. Manenti
Imperial College Business School, AGCOM - Italian Communication Regulatory Authority and University of Padua - Department of Economics and Management
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telecommunications, ladder of investment, unbundling, regulation

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The Determinants of Operational Risk Losses

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 25 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2019
Daniela Alifano, Valentina Corradi and Walter Distaso
Imperial College Business School, University of Surrey - School of Economics and Imperial College Business School
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operational risk, panel data, incidental parameters, jackknife, censoring

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Tailing Tail Risk in the Hedge Fund Industry

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 18 Apr 2012
Walter Distaso, Marcelo Fernandes and Filip Zikes
Imperial College Business School, Queen Mary University of London - Economics Department and Imperial College London
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alternative investment, copula, dynamic risk exposure, market uncertainty, tail dependence

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Design-Free Estimation of Variance Matrices

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 09 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2014
Karim M. Abadir, Walter Distaso and Filip Zikes
Imperial College Business School, Imperial College Business School and Imperial College London
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Variance matrices, ill-conditioning, mean squared error, mean absolute deviations, resampling

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The Cross-Section of Expected Jumps in Equity Returns

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 29 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2019
Massimiliano Caporin, Walter Distaso and Nancy Zambon
University of Padua - Department of Statistical Sciences, Imperial College Business School and University of Padua - Department of Economics
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jumps, equity returns, risk premia

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Cross-Section Without Factors: Correlation Risk, Strings and Asset Prices

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Cross-Section Without Factors: Correlation Risk, Strings and Asset Prices

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 20-119
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 10 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2021
Walter Distaso, Antonio Mele and Grigory Vilkov
Imperial College Business School, University of Lugano and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
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correlation premium, premium for correlation risk, cross-section of returns, big stocks, arbitrage pricing, string models, implied correlation.

Correlation Risk, Strings and Asset Prices

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13873
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 02 Aug 2019
Walter Distaso, Antonio Mele and Grigory Vilkov
Imperial College Business School, University of Lugano and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
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arbitrage pricing, correlation premium, correlation-risk premium, cross-section of returns, implied correlation, string models

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International Market Links and Volatility Transmission

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 14 Feb 2012
Valentina Corradi, Walter Distaso and Marcelo Fernandes
University of Warwick - Department of Economics, Imperial College Business School and Queen Mary University of London - Economics Department
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conditional independence, jump-diffusion, noncausality, quadratic variation, realized variance, stochastic

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Predictive Inference for Integrated Volatility

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 06 Mar 2007
Valentina Corradi, Walter Distaso, Norman R. Swanson and Norman R. Swanson
Queen Mary, University of London, Imperial College Business School and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Department of EconomicsRutgers University - Department of Economics
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Diffusions, integrated volatility, realized volatility measures, kernels, microstructure noise, conditional confidence intervals, jumps, prediction

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Predictive Density Estimators for Daily Volatility Based on the Use of Realized Measures

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 04 Oct 2005
Valentina Corradi, Walter Distaso, Norman R. Swanson and Norman R. Swanson
Queen Mary, University of London, Imperial College Business School and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Department of EconomicsRutgers University - Department of Economics
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Diffusions, integrated volatility, realized volatility measures, kernels, microstructure noise

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Two Estimators of the Long-Run Variance: Beyond Short Memory

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 14 Jan 2012
Karim M. Abadir, Walter Distaso and Liudas Giraitis
Imperial College Business School, Imperial College Business School and University of York - Department of Mathematics and Economics
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Asymptotic Normality for Weighted Sums of Linear Processes

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 15 Jan 2012
Karim M. Abadir, Walter Distaso, Liudas Giraitis and Hira Koul
Imperial College Business School, Imperial College Business School, University of York - Department of Mathematics and Economics and Michigan State University
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Nonstationarity-Extended Local Whittle Estimation

Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 141, No. 2, p. 1353, December 2007
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 14 Jan 2012
Karim M. Abadir, Walter Distaso and Liudas Giraitis
Imperial College Business School, Imperial College Business School and University of York - Department of Mathematics and Economics
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Multivariate Mixture-of-Normals Hypothesis in Exchange Rates

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 27 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 08 May 2013
Walter Distaso and Filip Zikes
Imperial College Business School and Imperial College London
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mixture of normals, realized covariance, continuous time models, high frequency data

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Psychological Distress and Work and Social Adjustment in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Country Analysis

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 09 Feb 2022
Walter Distaso, Ana Nikcevic and Marcantonio Spada
Imperial College Business School, Kingston University and London South Bank University
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COVID-19, psychological distress, work and social adjustment, anxiety

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An I(d) Model with Trend and Cycles

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 14 Jan 2012
Karim M. Abadir, Walter Distaso and Liudas Giraitis
Imperial College Business School, Imperial College Business School and University of York - Department of Mathematics and Economics
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Semiparametric Estimation and Inference for Trending I(D) and Related Processes

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 14 Jan 2012
Karim M. Abadir, Walter Distaso and Liudas Giraitis
Imperial College Business School, Imperial College Business School and University of York - Department of Mathematics and Economics
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Testing Joint Hypotheses When One of the Alternatives is One-Sided

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 15 Jan 2012
Karim M. Abadir and Walter Distaso
Imperial College Business School and Imperial College Business School
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