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In this paper we study implied and realized volatility for the Nordic power forward market. We create an implied volatility index with a fixed time to maturity. This index is compared to a realized volatility time series calculated from high-frequency data. The results show that the implied...
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regarded as special forms of barrier options. The relation between the barrier level and the strike price is especially … certificate nor a portfolio of certificates without using standard options. …
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In this paper, we consider the net loss of a life insurance company issuing identical equity-linked pure endowment contracts in the case of periodic premiums. Under this construction, financial risks as well as the mortality risk are included. Based on Møller (1998), we particularly investigate...
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regarded as special forms of barrier options. The relation between the barrier level and the strike price is especially … certificate nor a portfolio of certificates without using standard options. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005001506
In this paper, we consider the net loss of a life insurance company issuing identical equity-linked pure endowment contracts in the case of periodic premiums. Under this construction, financial risks as well as the mortality risk are included. Based on Møller (1998), we particularly investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004989624
After executing option orders, options market makers turn to the stock market to hedge away the underlying stock … independent of options. The analysis shows that the option-induced imbalance significantly predicts future stock returns in the … cross section controlling for the past stock and options returns, but the imbalance independent of options has only a …
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options on the S&P 500 futures expire (pinning) and are pushed away from the cost-of-carry adjusted at-the-money strike price … right before the expiration of options on the S&P 500 index (anti-cross-pinning). These effects are driven by the interplay … (and early exercise) of in-the-money options by individual investors. The associated shift in notional futures value is at …
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We examine the information content of option and equity volumes when trade direction is unobserved. In a multimarket asymmetric information model, equity short-sale costs result in a negative relation between relative option volume and future firm value. In our empirical tests, firms in the...
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The basic model of financial economics is the Samuelson model of geometric Brownian motion because of the celebrated Black-Scholes formula for pricing the call option. The asset's volatility is a linear function of the asset value and the model garantees positive asset prices. In this paper it...
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This study analyzes the forecasting accuracy of the implied volatility of options on futures contracts for the delivery … of CO2 emission allowances (carbon options) traded on the European Climate Exchange. We demonstrate that option implied … volatility is highly informative about the variance of returns realized over the remaining life of the options. It is also …
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