Book : Scholarly edition
Leverage Causes Fat Tails and Clustered Volatility
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We build a simple model of leveraged asset purchases with margin calls. Investment funds use what is perhaps the most basic financial strategy, called "value investing", i.e. systematically attempting to buy underpriced assets. When funds do not borrow, the price fluctuations of the asset are normally distributed and uncorrelated across time. All this changes when the funds are allowed to leverage, i.e. borrow from a bank, to purchase more assets than their wealth would otherwise permit. Duri...
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- Published
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- Pages:
- 695-707
- Publication date:
- 2009-08-11
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- Source identifiers:
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387630
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- Scholarly edition
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pubs:387630
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- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-16
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- Copyright date:
- 2009
- Notes:
- 19 pages, 8 figures
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