In a discrete time option pricing framework, we compare the empirical performance of two pricing methodologies, namely the affine stochastic discount factor (SDF) and the empirical martingale correction methodologies. Using a CAC 40 options dataset, the differences are found to be small: the...

In this paper, we provide a new dynamic asset pricing model for plain vanilla options and we discuss its ability to produce minimum mispricing errors on equity option books. The data set is the daily log returns of the French CAC40 index, on the period January 2, 1988, October 26, 2007. Under...

En se fondant sur la variation des cours boursiers affectant les sociétés de l'indice CAC40, le présent article examine les réactions du marché français consécutives à l'annonce officielle par Enron et Worldcom de la falsification de leurs comptes. L'étude montre qu'en situation d'une...

Jusqu'en 2005, les entreprises françaises n'avaient le droit d'attribuer qu'une seule forme de rémunération en actions : les stock-options. Depuis 2005, elles ont le choix entre stock-options et actions gratuites. La recherche s'interroge sur les conséquences de ce changement à travers...

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a growing issue in both professional and academic circles. The typology of Cooper et al. (1998) has pictured the variety of PPM formalized approaches into four types (financial, strategic, scoring and “bubble diagram”). While the use of formalized...

The aim of this paper is to consider the moments and the semi-moments (i.e semi-kurtosis) for portfolio selection with fuzzy risk factors (i.e. trapezoidal risk factors). In order to measure the leptokurtocity of fuzzy portfolio return, notions of moments (i.e. Kurtosis) kurtosis and...

We introduce a new model for describing the fluctuations of a tick-by-tick single asset price. Our model is based on Markov renewal processes. We consider a point process associated to the timestamps of the price jumps, and marks associated to price increments. By modeling the marks with a...

We design adaptive realized kernels to estimate the integrated volatility in a framework that combines a stochastic volatility model with leverage effect for the efficient price and a semiparametric microstructure noise model speci…ed at the highest frequency. Some time dependence parameters of...

High frequency data are often used to construct proxies for the daily volatility in discrete time volatility models. This paper introduces a calculus for such proxies, making it possible to compare and optimize them. The two distinguishing features of the approach are (1) a simple continuous...

This article investigates the modelling of the convenience yield in the European carbon market by using daily and intradaily measures of volatility. The convenience yield stems from differences in spot and futures prices, and can explain why firms hold inventories. The main findings are that (i)...