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by trekstor
May 26th, 2010, 6:07 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Constant relative risk aversion
Replies: 0
Views: 27021

Constant relative risk aversion

<t>Well i have this statement:"You have a car worth $20,000 and have a constant relative risk aversion. As your wealth decreases you would be willing to pay a higher insurance premium to fully insure your car."The statement is true?or false??I know that RRA means that the individual will be willing ...
by trekstor
May 26th, 2010, 4:07 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: arbitrage opportunity
Replies: 6
Views: 28035

arbitrage opportunity

thank you very much all of you
by trekstor
May 26th, 2010, 12:50 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: arbitrage opportunity
Replies: 6
Views: 28035

arbitrage opportunity

Could you please explain to me in a more analytical way why the second statement isn't an arbitrage?Thank you
by trekstor
May 26th, 2010, 12:03 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: arbitrage opportunity
Replies: 6
Views: 28035

arbitrage opportunity

<t>1st statement: If i borrow money from a bank for 1 year at 5% and then invest in a risk-free asset that has an expected return of 6% over the same year then this is an arbitrage opportunity?????2nd statement:The risk-free rate is 1.5%. There exists a pharmaceutical share that has current price of...
by trekstor
May 4th, 2010, 4:46 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: confusion on daily returns...
Replies: 11
Views: 29131

confusion on daily returns...

thank you very much for your help i think that i have got it now!!!
by trekstor
May 4th, 2010, 8:34 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: confusion on daily returns...
Replies: 11
Views: 29131

confusion on daily returns...

hello in your previous post you havent said no autocorrelation, thats the reason i was confused. Thanks anyway for your help.Could anyone else help here?trekstor
by trekstor
May 4th, 2010, 8:30 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: variance ratio test on stock returns
Replies: 1
Views: 32814

variance ratio test on stock returns

<t>"When performing a variance ratio test on stock index prices, a variance ratio significantly >1 indicates that stock index prices follow a random walk" True or False?Variance-Ratio test is a measure of the randomness of a return series. Variance ratio is computed by dividing the variance of retur...
by trekstor
May 4th, 2010, 7:54 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: confusion on daily returns...
Replies: 11
Views: 29131

confusion on daily returns...

hello,If auto-correlation means that dailly returns are independent then the statement is "False" since it says that there is NO auto-correlation between daily returns so they couldnt be IID...Correct?
by trekstor
May 4th, 2010, 6:51 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: confusion on daily returns...
Replies: 11
Views: 29131

confusion on daily returns...

<t>hello trarckstar and thank you very much for you helpthis is a part from Quantitative Finance module that i have in my bachelor degree. I think its a really hard module and sometimes i couldn't keep up with it.So if i have understood correctly what you have said to me! The statement could be true...
by trekstor
May 3rd, 2010, 4:56 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: confusion on daily returns...
Replies: 11
Views: 29131

confusion on daily returns...

<t>Hello, as you can tell I'm a newbie here but i would appreciate your help!!!(really need it)Well i have this statement "There is no autocorrelation between daily returns, thusss daily returns are independent and identically distributed.(i.i.d)" True or False????I'm really confused.... no autocorr...