We construct the contingent claims models that price participating policies with rate guarantees, bonuses and default risk. These policies are characterized by the sharing of profits from an investment portfolio between the insurer and the policy holders. A certain surplus distribution mechanism (reversionary bonus) is employed to credit interest at or above certain specified guaranteed rate pe...

We shall discuss the construction of simple binomial models for pricing interest rate derivatives The main feature of these models is that the risk free interest rate can vary stochastically from one period to the next Stochastic rate models can be used to price interest rate options caps and oors options on bonds callable bonds etc They can also be incorporated at the expense of more complexit...

CAPM augmented with liquidity and size premium in the Croatian stock market Jelena Minović & Boško Živković To cite this article: Jelena Minović & Boško Živković (2014) CAPM augmented with liquidity and size premium in the Croatian stock market, Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 27:1, 191-206, DOI: 10.1080/1331677X.2014.952107 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1331677X....

From a CAPM-type model the cost of equity is derived for a ...rm operating under various foreign tax systems. The ...rm’s shares are traded in a market which is una¤ected by these systems. The cost of capital depends on the foreign tax system, even for fully equity ...nanced projects. This is neglected in much of the literature. For a corporate income tax the main factor which reduces the cost ...

In this paper, we test a version of the conditional CAPM with respect to a local market portfolio, proxied by the Brazilian stock index during the period 1976-1992. We also test a conditional APT mo deI by using the difference between the 3~day rate (Cdb) and the overnight rate as a second factor in addition to the market portfolio in order to capture the large inflation risk present during thi...

In the paper, we use three years of monthly data to compute loadings on the labor market tightness factor. We now evaluate robustness of our results to different beta estimation horizons. In Table IA.I, we estimate betas using 24, 48, or 60 months of data and otherwise do not modify our empirical methods. For all considered horizons, the differences in future performance of portfolios with low ...

This paper presents a test of multi-period asset pricing models using quarterly Philippine data. Using a consumption-based asset-pricing model, the study finds the rate of time preference to be 5.20 percent (on an annual basis). The estimated risk aversion coefficient of 0.043 seems to be on the low side when compared with estimates for other countries. Hansen's J-test finds favorable evidence ...

A key result of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is that the market portfolio— the portfolio of all assets in which each asset’s weight is proportional to its total market capitalization—lies on the mean-variance-efficient frontier, the set of portfolios having mean-variance characteristics that cannot be improved upon. Therefore, the CAPM cannot be consistent with efficient frontiers for...

Abstract This paper develops a simple new methodology to test financial market integration. Our technique is tightly based on a general intertemporal asset-pricing model, and relies on estimating and comparing expected discount rates across asset markets. Expected discount rates are allowed to vary freely over time, constrained only by the fact that they are equal across (riskadjusted) assets. ...