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Capital structure arbitrage under a risk-neutral calibration
Zeitsch, Peter J. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 10 (2017) 1, pp. 1-23
arbitrage opportunities is illustrated. The approach seeks to hedge the volatility risk, or vega, as opposed to the exposure … from the underlying equity itself, or delta. The results question the efficacy of the common arbitrage strategy of only …
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On survivor stocks in the S&P 500 stock index
Grobys, Klaus - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-24
This paper investigates the performance and characteristics of survivor stocks in the S&P 500 index. Using both in-sample and out-of-sample comparisons, survivor stocks outperformed this market index by a considerable margin. Relative to other S&P 500 index companies, survivor stocks tend to be...
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Pricing product options and using them to complete markets for functions of two underlying asset prices
Madan, Dilip B.; Wang, King - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 8, pp. 1-19
Options paying the product of put and/or call option payouts at different strikes on two underlying assets are observed to synthesize joint densities and replicate differentiable functions of two underlying asset prices. The pricing of such options is undertaken from three perspectives. The...
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Arbitrage free approximations to candidate volatility surface quotations
Madan, Dilip B.; Schoutens, Wim - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 12 (2019) 2/69, pp. 1-21
It is argued that the growth in the breadth of option strikes traded after the financial crisis of 2008 poses difficulties for the use of Fourier inversion methodologies in volatility surface calibration. Continuous time Markov chain approximations are proposed as an alternative. They are shown...
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Causality between arbitrage and liquidity in platinum futures
Iwatsubo, Kentaro; Watkins, Clinton - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 12, pp. 1-17
Arbitrage and liquidity are interrelated. Liquidity facilitates arbitrageurs’ trading on deviations from the law of one … price. However, whether arbitrage opportunity leads to an increase or decrease in liquidity depends on the cause of the … arbitrage and liquidity influence each other in the world’s largest platinum futures markets on exchanges in New York and Tokyo …
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Pricing a European option in a black-scholes quanto market when stock price is a semimartingale
Offen, E. R.; Lungu, E. M. - In: Journal of mathematical finance 5 (2015) 3, pp. 286-303
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Statistical arbitrage with mean-reverting overnight price gaps on high-frequency data of the S&P 500
Stübinger, Johannes; Schneider, Lucas - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 12 (2019) 2/51, pp. 1-19
This paper develops a fully-fledged statistical arbitrage strategy based on a mean-reverting jump-diffusion model and …
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Do diamond stocks shine brighter than diamonds?
Jotanovic, Vera; D'Ecclesia, Rita L. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 12 (2019) 2/79, pp. 1-19
This paper addresses two practical investment questions: Is investing in the diamond equity market a more feasible and liquid alternative to investing in diamonds? Additionally, is diamond equity affected by polished diamond prices? We assemble an original database of diamond mining stock prices...
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An artificial intelligence approach to the valuation of American-style derivatives : a use of particle swarm optimization
Chen, Ren-Raw; Huang, Jeffrey; Huang, William; Yu, Robert - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 2/57, pp. 1-22
In this paper, we evaluate American-style, path-dependent derivatives with an artificial intelligence technique. Specifically, we use swarm intelligence to find the optimal exercise boundary for an American-style derivative. Swarm intelligence is particularly efficient (regarding computation and...
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Efficient numerical pricing of American call options using symmetry arguments
Stentoft, Lars - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 12 (2019) 2/59, pp. 1-26
This paper demonstrates that it is possible to improve significantly on the estimated call prices obtained with the regression and simulation-based least-squares Monte Carlo method by using put-call symmetry. The results show that, for a large sample of options with characteristics of relevance...
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