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We provide an analytical and flexible framework to evaluate incentive options. Our model not only considers vesting … resetting to capture the fact that firms tend to grant more options after existing options are either exercised or become deep … out of the money. By treating the incentive option as a flow of barrier options, we are able to obtain a near …
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This paper examines the relation between dollar-real exchange rate volatility implied in option prices and subsequent realized volatility. It investigates whether implied volatilities contain information about volatility over the remaining life of the option which is not present in past returns....
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The fact that the expected payoffs on assets and call options are infinite under most log-stable distributions led Paul … Fourier Transform (FFT) can be used to quickly evaluate options directly from the characteristic function of any RNM. The log …-stable RNM characteristic function presented here therefore greatly facilitates the pricing of options on log-stable assets, by …
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The paper applies methods of functional data analysis – functional auto-regression, principal components and canonical correlations – to the study of the dynamics of interest rate curve. In addition, it introduces a novel statistical tool based on the singular value decomposition...
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Portfolio managers use index futures for a variety of reasons. Regardless of their motivation, they will keep a close eye on the relation between the futures and their stock portfolio returns. Whenever this relation is perceived to have changed, the manager will decide whether it is worthwhile...
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index options, one needs to incorporate an infinite activity jump component in the underlying asset return process, and also …
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put and call options, of both the European and the American type. This relation, based on a change of numeraire …
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Theoretical literature in finance has shown that quantifying the risk of financial time series amounts to measuring their expected shortfall, also known as tail Value at Risk. Unfortunately, little empirical work has been devoted to the problem of modeling and inference of such risk measures...
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Conditional volatility models, such as GARCH, have been used extensively in financial applications to capture predictable variation in the second moment of asset returns. However, with recent theoretical literature emphasising the loss averse nature of agents, this paper considers models which...
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This paper contributes to the literature comparing the relative performance of financial intermediaries and markets by studying an environment in which a trade-off between risk sharing and growth arises endogenously. Financial intermediaries provide insurance to households against a liquidity...
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