Golez, Benjamin; Jackwerth, Jens Carsten - In: Journal of Financial Economics 106 (2012) 3, pp. 566-585
We show that Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 futures are pulled toward the at-the-money strike price on days when serial 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...