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Since Black (1976), the source of the stock price volatility smirk has remained a controversy. The volatility smirk is a side effect of agency conflict. An important distinction is that the smirk occurs in the optimum, even after agency conflict has been resolved. The slope of the smirk is found...
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We present a new framework for the joint estimation of the default-free government term structure and corporate credit spread curves. By using a data set of liquid, German mark denominated bonds, we show that this yields more realistic spreads than traditionally obtained spread curves that...
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, with evidence from listed firms in Taiwan, pricing options on stocks denominated in different currencies, with theory and … stock futures, the non-uniform pricing effect of employee stock options using quantile regression, nonlinear dynamics and …
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Taking a portfolio perspective on option pricing and hedging, we show that within the standard Black … indefinitely. This ties the literature on option pricing and hedging closer together with the APT literature in its focus on …) hedging the total risk of each option separately, the correct hedge portfolio in discrete time eliminates linear (delta) as …
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Annuity Option. Finally, we illustrate with historical UK interest rate data from the period1980 until 2000 that the static …
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Electricity is not storable. As a consequence, electricity demand and supply need to be in balance at any moment in time as a shortage in production volume cannot be compensated with supply from inventories. However, if the installed power supply capacity is very flexible, variation in demand...
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introduce the new full truncation scheme, tailored to minimise the upward bias found when pricing European options. Thirdly and …
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The forward premium puzzle (FPP) is the negative correlation between the forward premium and the realized exchange rate return at maturities of a month and beyond. Some recent evidence shows that at maturities of multiple years and at the highest intra day frequency the correlation is positive...
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-free and risk-neutral, derived from available option data. Depending on its particular de…nition, each index represents a …
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explosion of the characteristic function. This allows for robust and fast option pricing for almost all levels of strikes and … calculation of plain vanilla option prices in models with an analytically available characteristic function. Shifting the contour …
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