Relaxing standard hedging assumptions in the presence of downside risk

Hedging Downside Risk: Futures versus Options

the study of aaag repeat polymorphism in promoter of errg gene and its association with the risk of breast cancer in isfahan region

چکیده: سرطان پستان دومین عامل مرگ مرتبط با سرطان در خانم ها است. از آنجا که سرطان پستان یک تومور وابسته به هورمون است، می تواند توسط وضعیت هورمون های استروئیدی شامل استروژن و پروژسترون تنظیم شود. استروژن نقش مهمی در توسعه و پیشرفت سرطان پستان ایفا می کند و تاثیر خود را روی بیان ژن های هدف از طریق گیرنده های استروژن اعمال می کند. اما گروه دیگری از گیرنده های هسته ای به نام گیرنده های مرتبط به ا...

Option Hedging in the Presence of Jump Risk

We examine Schweizer's (1991) locally risk-minimizing (LRM) hedge approach for hedging a European call in the case when the stock price follows a Poisson jump di usion process with lognormally distributed jump sizes. In contrast to Merton's (1976) hedging strategy where di usion risk is perfectly hedged while jump risk remains un-hedged, the locally risk-minimizing strategy hedges both di usion...

Analyzing the Incremental Information Content of Earnings Downside Risk in Explaining the Cost of Capital

    The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of a new measure of risk, the earnings downside risk on capital costs, and comparing the incremental information content of this measure to other risk metrics. accordingly, two hypotheses were defined and the effect of the earnings downside risk on the cost of capital as well as the information content of this measure in relation to the...

Measures of downside risk

The paper characterizes a family of downside risk measures. They depend on a target value and a parameter reflecting the attitude towards downside risk. The indicators are probability weighted −order means of possible shortfalls. They form a subclass of the measures intro¬duced by Stone (1973) and are related to the measures proposed by Fishburn (1977). The axiomatization is based on some prope...