Publication
Title
Unraveling historic correlation
Author
Abstract
Correlations play an important role in many areas of finance. Unlike other financial variables correlation can hardly be implied from market prices. Most applications hence extract correlation estimates from historical data. This note illustrates how recent market events have impacted such estimates. The calculations and results are simple but point out some crucial features. First, correlations have considerably increased in recent markets and are likely to increase even further. And second, recent events seem to undermine the distributional assumptions underlying models used to price and assess the risk of financial assets.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Bank- en financiewezen. - Bruxelles, 2003, currens
Publication
Bruxelles : 2009
ISSN
2033-7825 [print]
2566-154X [online]
Volume/pages
5 (2009) , p. 336-338
UAntwerpen
Faculty/Department
Publication type
Subject
External links
Record
Identifier
Creation 22.11.2012
Last edited 04.03.2024
To cite this reference