Are Chinese Warrants Derivatives? Evidence from Connections to their Underlying Stocks
In this paper, we empirically investigate warrant price behavior in the Chinese market – the largest warrant market in the world in terms of trading volume since 2006. By examining warrant return properties, volatility behavior, and pricing errors, we document a stylized fact that call warrants have a considerable linkage with their underlying but put warrants nearly do not. The combination of the arbitrage pricing theory and the resale-option bubble theory (proposed by Scheinkman and Xiong 2003) is adopted to explain this stylized fact. Specifically, the arbitrage pricing framework tells that it is possible for puts (calls) to be overpriced (underpriced) due to short-sales prohibition in the Chinese stock market,while the resale-option bubble theory proves that puts do have bubbles but calls do not. The bubble dilutes the linkage between put prices and their underlying stock prices. Our findings have implications for Chinese investors as well as the derivatives regulator
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2012
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Authors: | Tang, Ke |
Other Persons: | Wang, Changyun (contributor) |
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[2012]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Derivat | Derivative | China | Optionsanleihe | Warrant bond | Aktienmarkt | Stock market |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (35 p) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | In: Quantitative Finance, Forthcoming Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments October 8, 2012 erstellt |
Classification: | G12 - Asset Pricing |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099649
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