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Which statement is true: The minimum variance hedge
Select one:
a. is the point at the utmost left of the efficient frontier of risky assets
b. minimizes the variance of the hedged position of spot and futures
c. can be obtained from linearly regressing the changes in the spot price on the changes of the market portfolio
d. None of the above statements is true.
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- Consider the following portfolio choice problem. The investor has initial wealth w and utility u(x) = . There is a safe asset (such as a US government bond) that has net real return of zero. There is also a risky asset with a random net return that has only two possible returns, R₁ with probability 1-q and Ro with probability q. We assume R₁ 0. Let A be the amount invested in the risky asset, so that w - A is invested in the safe asset. 1) What are risk preferences of this investor, are they risk-averse, risk neutral or risk-loving?A seller has an indivisible asset to sell. Her reservation value for the asset is s, which she knows privately. A potential buyer thinks that the assetís value to him is b, which he privately knows. Assume that s and b are independently and uniformly drawn from [0, 1]. If the seller sells the asset to the buyer for a price of p, the seller's payoff is p - s and the buyer's payoffis b - p. Suppose the buyer makes a take-it-or-leave-it offer p to the seller. What's the optimal offer if the buyer's value is b = 1/2?In stock index future hedging, the optimal number of contracts used to hedge depends on the beta of the equity portfolio when the stock index represents the entire stock market. Which of the following regarding the beta (in the above statement) is correct? The beta is the slope of the best fit line when the futures price (on the y-axis) is regressed against the spot price (on the x-axis). The beta is the slope of the best fit line when the spot price (on the y-axis) is regressed against the futures price (on the x-axis). The beta is the slope of the best fit line when the change in the futures price (on the y-axis) is regressed against the change in the spot price (on the x-axis). The beta is the slope of the best fit line when the change in the spot price (on the y-axis) is regressed against the change in the futures price (on the x-axis). None of the above
- Risky Prospect Y is defined as: Y = ($7,0.25; $12,0.50; $25 , 0.25) What is the expected value of prospect Y? (Do not include a dollar sign in your answer)A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term bond fund, and the third is a money market fund that provides a safe return of 8%. The characteristics of the risky funds are as follows: Expected Return Standard Deviation Stock fund (S) 20% 30% Bond fund (B) 12 15 The correlation between the fund returns is 0.10. a-1. What are the investment proportions in the minimum - variance portfolio of the two risky funds. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as decimals rounded to 4 places.) Portfolio invested in the stock Portfolio invested in the bond a-2. What are the expected value and standard deviation of the minimum variance portfolio rate of return? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as percentage rounded to 2 decimals.) Expected return % Standard deviation %Consider the following portfolio choice problem. The investor has initial wealth w andutility u(x) = (x^n) /n. There is a safe asset (such as a US government bond) that has netreal return of zero. There is also a risky asset with a random net return that has onlytwo possible returns, R1 with probability 1 − q and R0 with probability q. We assumeR1 < 0, R0 > 0. Let A be the amount invested in the risky asset, so that w − A isinvested in the safe asset.1) What are risk preferences of this investor, are they risk-averse, riskneutral or risk-loving?2) Find A as a function of w.
- I need help with question dFind the attached file.Let A be an m x n matrix representing the payoff of n securities in m states of the world. If the market is complete, which of the following statements are true? Provide counter examples in case not. (a) A is of full rank (b) A is invertible (c) The prices of n securities are free of arbitrage
- A seller has an indivisible asset to sell. Her reservation value for the asset is s, which she knows privately. A potential buyer thinks that the assetís value to him is b, which he privately knows. Assume that s and b are independently and uniformly drawn from [0, 1]. If the seller sells the asset to the buyer for a price of p, the seller's payoff is p-s and the buyer's payoffis b-p. Suppose simultaneously the buyer makes an offer p1 and the seller makes an offer p2. A transaction occurs if p1>=p2, and the transaction price is 1/2 (p1 + p2). Is the following strategy profile a Bayesian Nash equilibrium: the buyer chooses p1 = 1/2 if b>=1/2 and he chooses p1=0 if b<1/2; the seller chooses p2=1/2 if s<1/2 and she chooses p2=1 if s>1/2. Why or why not? Can there be a Bayesian Nash Equilibrium in which the transaction price is .9 whenever there is a transaction? Why or why not?advanced microeconomics, uncertaintyA widely used utility function in the economics literature is the constant rate of risk aversion utility function. It is given by: utc) = c*(1-n) (1-n) Assume that an agent lives tor three periods (t-0,1,2) and discounts future utity at rate B (per period), The agent is born with asset level ag and his/her labour market income is yo and y, for periods O and 1 respectively, the agent retire in the last period (no labour income). The interest rate in this economy is Please answer the following questions based on the information displayed here. Choose the best option avallable. Select one: O a. The budget constrain in period te2 is given by: C2 + ay = az(1+r) O b. The budget constrain in period te2 is given by: c2= az{1+1) O G. The budget constrain in period t=2 is glven by: ute, )+ ag = a;(1+1) +ya d. The budget constrain in period t=2 is given by: C2= az(1+r) +y3 e. The budget constrain in period te2 is given by: c, + ag = az(1+) +ya
