A State Price Density (SPD) is the density function of a risk neutral equivalent martingale measure for option pricing, and is indispensible for exotic option pricing and portfolio risk management. Many approaches have been proposed in the last two decades to calibrate a SPD using financial...

Over the past few years the CDS market's role has evolved from mostly providing default protection towards credit risk trading. The first-ever credit event in a developed country's sovereign CDS has further highlighted the importance of the CDS market from a macro-prudential perspective....

We develop a model of equilibrium entry, trade, and price formation in over-the- counter (OTC) markets. Banks trade derivatives to share an aggregate risk subject to two trading frictions: they must pay a fixed entry cost, and they must limit the size of the positions taken by their traders...

Policy makers and market participants alike wish to understand the amount, economic significance, and concentration of derivatives trading activity. This paper suggests that systematic measuring and reporting of margin by market participants, disaggregated by asset class, would provide more...

The derivative action recently has emerged as a promising weapon to combat corporate wrongdoing even in countries that are traditionally not litigious. However the viability of such litigation as a tool is uncertain both from a theoretical and practical perspective. At one extreme of the...

Seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre werden "Wetterderivate" als neues Instrument zum Management wetterbedingter Mengenrisiken diskutiert. Im Gegensatz zu schadensbezogenen Versicherungen erfolgt der Hedge bei Wetterderivaten durch an Wetterindizes (Niederschlagssummen, Temperatursummen etc.) gekoppelte...

This paper presents a new statistical arbitrage test which has lower Type I error and selects arbitrage opportunities with lower downside risk than existing alternatives. The test is applied to credit derivatives markets using strategies combining Credit Default Swaps (CDS) and Asset Swaps....

We study forwards and European call options, which are written on a non-storable renewable resource. Examples of such derivatives in form of futures on fresh catch of wild salmon for the US and the recently created Fish Pool market in Norway, where futures on a composite of wild catch and farmed...

This paper presents a framework for the analyzing revenue distribution in the delivery of digital content such as music, movies, games, books, and news. In such content delivery networks, there are various roles played by producers, consumers, syndicators, aggregators and distributors in the...