Is There a Novelty Premium on New Financial Instruments? : The Argentine Experience with GDP-Indexed Warrants /

This paper examines the Argentine experience with GDP-indexed warrants in order to gauge the existence of a novelty premium on new financial instruments. It develops a Monte Carlo pricing exercise to calculate the expected net present value of payments, on the basis of various forecast assumptions....

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Main Author: Ricci, Luca
Other Authors: Chamon, Marcos, Costa, Alejo
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/109
Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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Summary:This paper examines the Argentine experience with GDP-indexed warrants in order to gauge the existence of a novelty premium on new financial instruments. It develops a Monte Carlo pricing exercise to calculate the expected net present value of payments, on the basis of various forecast assumptions. The results show that the residual premium paid by these warrants over standard bonds declined significantly by about 600 basis points between December 2005 and July 2007. This suggests that financial innovation may be associated with premia, which decay reasonably fast.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (40 pages)
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ISSN:1018-5941
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