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Ambiguity aversion and the term structure of interest

Gagliardini, Patrick ; Porchia, Paolo ; Trojani, Fabio

In: The review of financial studies, 2009, vol. 22, no. 10, p. 4157-4188

This paper studies the term structure implications of a simple structural model in which the representative agent displays ambiguity aversion, modeled by Multiple Priors Recursive Utility. Bond excess returns reflect a premium for ambiguity, which is observationally distinct from the risk premium of affine yield curve models. The ambiguity premium can be large even in the simplest log-utility...

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Robust GMM tests for structural breaks

Gagliardini, Patrick ; Trojani, Fabio ; Urga, Giovanni

In: Journal of Econometrics, 2005, vol. 129, no. 1-2, p. 139-182

We propose a class of new robust GMM tests for endogenous structural breaks. The tests are based on supremum, average and exponential functionals derived from robust GMM estimators with bounded influence function. We study the theoretical local robustness properties of the new tests and show that they imply a uniformly bounded asymptotic sensitivity of size and power under general local...

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Homogeneity hypothesis in the context of asset pricing models : the quadratic market model

Barone-Adesi, Giovanni ; Gagliardini, Patrick ; Urga, Giovanni

This paper proposes a two factor model for asset pricing. We formulate a model of asset returns that in addition to the traditional market return term includes also the square of the market return to account for risk originating from coskewness with the market portofolio. The quadratic term is able to account for heterogeneities across portfolios. We conclude that the extra term is significant...

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Constrained nonparametric dependence with application in finance

Gagliardini, Patrick ; Barone-Adesi, Giovanni (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2003 ; 2003ECO002.

The developments of financial theory in the last decades have shown that one of the most fundamental topics in Finance is the specification of dependence between different risk variables. Empirical evidence on financial time series (such as returns, interest rates, or exchange rates) as well as recent developments in risk management (such as the analysis of dependence between default risks of...