Fajardo, José; Mordecki, Ernesto - IBMEC Business School - Rio de Janeiro - 2006
We study the skewness premium (SK) introduced by Bates (1991) in a general context using Lévy Processes. We obtain sufficient and necessary conditions for Bate's x% rule to hold. Then, we derive sufficient conditions for SK to be positive, in terms of the characteristic triplet of the Lévy...