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Equity option pricing with systematic and idiosyncratic volatility and jump risks
Li, Zhe - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 13 (2020) 1/16, pp. 1-18
structure. In this paper, the importance of systematic and idiosyncratic volatility and jump risks on individual equity option … volatility and jumps, which takes into account four types of risks, i.e., the systematic diffusion, the idiosyncratic diffusion …
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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 applies it to high-frequency data of the S&P 500 constituents from January 1998-December 2015. In particular, the established stock selection and trading framework identifies...
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Executive compensation and firm performance in New Zealand : the role of employee stock option plans
Ding, David K.; Chea, Ya Eem - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 1/31, pp. 1-19
We examine the role of employee stock option plans (ESOPs) in mitigating agency problems in New Zealand firms. We find that ESOPs have a significant and positive effect on firm performance relative to their non-ESOP counterparts. This relation appears within a year from the first ESOP...
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Testing the information-based trading hypothesis in the option market : evidence from share repurchases
Badshah, Ihsan Ullah; Koerniadi, Hardjo; Kolari, James W. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 12 (2019) 4/179, pp. 1-11
research on this hypothesis to open-market share repurchases. Empirical tests showed that the implied volatility spread was not … implied volatility spread and subsequent stock return volatility around open-market share repurchase events. We concluded that … option traders have private information on the volatility of stock returns and superior information processing ability that …
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The impact of CEO educational background on corporate risk-taking in China
Zhang, Jinyi; Xue, Chunxiao; Zhang, Jianing - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 16 (2023) 1, pp. 1-16
This article investigates whether, and how, CEO educational background affects Chinese corporate risk-taking. Using a sample of 4681 firm-year observations from 2012 to 2020, we find that CEO educational background is negatively associated with corporate risk-taking. The nonlinear quadratic...
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Computational finance
Stentoft, Lars - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 13 (2020) 7/145, pp. 1-4
use of computational methods and techniques for modelling financial asset prices, returns, and volatility, and on the use …
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Variance swap replication : discrete or continuous?
Le Floc'h, Fabien - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 11 (2018) 1, pp. 1-15
The popular replication formula to price variance swaps assumes continuity of traded option strikes. In practice, however, there is only a discrete set of option strikes traded on the market. We present here different discrete replication strategies and explain why the continuous replication...
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Default risk and cross section of returns
Cakici, Nusret; Chatterjee, Sris; Chen, Ren-Raw - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 12 (2019) 2/95, pp. 1-15
Prior research uses the basic one-period European call-option pricing model to compute default measures for individual firms and concludes that both the size and book-to-market effects are related to default risk. For example, small firms earn higher return than big firms only if they have...
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Bond risk premia and restrictions on risk prices
Hevia, Constantino; Sola, Martin - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 11 (2018) 4, pp. 1-22
Researchers who estimate affine term structure models often impose overidentifying restrictions (restrictions on parameters beyond those necessary for identification) for a variety of reasons. While some of those restrictions seem to have minor effects on the extracted factors and some measures...
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Insuring Hollywood : a movie returns index and the American stock market
Lauria, Davide; Phillips, Wyatt D. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 5, pp. 1-33
The aim of this paper is the definition of a daily index representing the risk-return on investments in the American film industry. The index should be used to predict the riskiness and the expected return of movie projects at the level of the overall industry and then to determine a premium for...
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