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A comparison of implied and realized volatility in the Nordic power forward market
Birkelund, Ole Henrik; Haugom, Erik; Molnár, Peter; … - In: Energy Economics 48 (2015) C, pp. 288-294
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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Credit default swap auctions
Helwege, Jean; Maurer, Samuel; Sarkar, Asani; Wang, Yuan - 2009
The rapid growth of the credit default swap (CDS) market and the increased number of defaults in recent years have led to major changes in the way CDS contracts are settled when default occurs. Auctions are increasingly the mechanism used to settle these contracts, replacing physical transfers...
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Broker-dealer risk appetite and commodity returns
Etula, Erkko M. - 2010 - Rev.
This paper shows that the risk-bearing capacity of U.S. securities brokers and dealers is a strong determinant of risk premia in commodity markets. Commodity derivatives are the principal instrument used by producers and consumers of commodities to hedge against commodity price risk....
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Arbitrage-free models of stocks and bonds
Durham, J. Benson - 2013
A small but ambitious literature uses affine arbitrage-free models to estimate jointly U.S. Treasury term premiums and the term structure of equity risk premiums. Within this approach, this paper identifies the parameter restrictions that are consistent with a simple dividend discount model,...
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Understanding Mortgage Spreads
Boyarchenko, Nina; Fuster, Andreas; Lucca, David O. - 2014
Spreads of agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) vary significantly in the cross section and over time, but the sources of this variation are not well understood. We document that, in the cross section, MBS spreads adjusted for the prepayment option show a pronounced smile with respect to the...
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Does option trading convey stock price information?
Hu, Jianfeng - In: Journal of Financial Economics 111 (2014) 3, pp. 625-645
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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Pinning in the S&P 500 futures
Golez, Benjamin; Jackwerth, Jens Carsten - In: Journal of Financial Economics 106 (2012) 3, pp. 566-585
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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The option to stock volume ratio and future returns
Johnson, Travis L.; So, Eric C. - In: Journal of Financial Economics 106 (2012) 2, pp. 262-286
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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Option-implied term structures
Vogt, Erik - 2014
The illiquidity of long-maturity options has made it difficult to study the term structures of option spanning …
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Relative pricing and risk premia in equity volatility markets
Van Tassel, Peter - 2018
This paper provides empirical evidence that volatility markets are integrated through the time-varying term structure of variance risk premia. These risk premia predict the returns from selling volatility for different horizons, maturities, and products, including variance swaps, straddles, and...
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