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We value UK executive stock options (ESOs) as American options that areawarded conditional on the probability of the holders achieving some performancecriteria. Unlike the standard Black and Scholes (BS) model, which is universally usedboth in the literature and practice, this provides a more...
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We price European-style options on assets whose probability distributions have two unknown parameters. We assume a pricing kernel which also has two unknown parameters. When certain conditions are met, a two-dimensional risk-neutral valuation relationship exists for the pricing of these options:...
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This paper compares the pricing and hedging performance of the LMM model against two spot-ratemodels, namely Hull … contrast to previous studies in the literature, ouremphasis here is on ALM and we use hedging performance on Bermudan swaptions …
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particular, we compare the two models for pricing and hedging Bermudanswaptions because of its resemblance to prepayment option …
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particular volatility formula may not be enough tocapture the term structure of different markets. Hedging performance of the …This paper tests the co-terminal swap market model (SMM) pricing and hedging performance onBermudan swaptions. To our … approximate the earlyexercise decision in Bermudan swaption. By introducing individual parameters for volatility of eachco …
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The recent financial crisis has accentuated the fact that extreme outcomes have been overlookedand not dealt with adequately. While extreme value theories have existed for a long time, themultivariate variant is difficult to handle in the financial markets due to the prevalentheteroskedasticity...
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The long memory characteristic of financial market volatility is well documentedand has important implications for … volatility forecasting and optionpricing. When fitted to the same data, different volatility models calculate theunconditional … variance differently and could have very different volatility persistentparameters. Hence, they produce very different …
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This study explores the information content of HML and SMB by linking the Fama-French factors toshocks in the state variables which predict future investment opportunities. It shows that the HMLfactor contains information about shocks to default spread. Moreover, the Fama-French modelexplains...
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Welfare gains to long-horizon investors may derive from time diversification that exploits non-zerointertemporal return correlations associated with predictable returns. Real estate may thus become moredesirable if its returns are negatively serially correlated. While it could be important for...
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This paper examines a continuous-time intertemporal consumption and portfolio choice problem foran ambiguity-averse investor with multiple priors when the expected return of a risky asset isunobservable and follows a hidden Markov chain. The investor’s beliefs over investmentopportunities are...
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