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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

difficulties for the use of Fourier inversion methodologies in volatility surface calibration. Continuous time Markov chain …

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Use of Bayesian estimates to determine the volatility parameter input in the black-scholes and binomial option pricing models

Ho, Shu Wing; Lee, Alan J.; Marsden, Alastair - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 4 (2012) 1, pp. 74-96

useful in the pricing of derivative securities where the implied stock price volatility cannot be observed. …The valuation of options and many other derivative instruments requires an estimation of exante or forward looking … volatility. This paper adopts a Bayesian approach to estimate stock price volatility. We find evidence that overall Bayesian …

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Sample path generation of the stochastic volatility CGMY process and its application to path-dependent option pricing

Kim, Young Shin - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 2/77, pp. 1-18

This paper proposes the sample path generation method for the stochastic volatility version of the CGMY process. We …

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Hedging performance and multiscale relationships in the German electricity spot and futures markets

Madaleno, Mara; Pinho, Carlos - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 3 (2010) 1, pp. 26-62

We explore optimal hedge ratios and hedging effectiveness for the German electricity market. Given the increasing attention that wavelets received in the financial market, we concentrate on the investigation of the relationship, covariance/coherence evolution and hedge ratio analysis, on a...

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Net buying pressure and informed trading in the options market : evidence from earnings announcements

Badshah, Ihsan Ullah; Koerniadi, Hardjo - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-9

trading around quarterly earnings announcements is either directionally motivated and/or volatility motivated. We found … volatility-motivated option trading, and our results suggest that this type of option trading could be motivated by hedging …

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Hedging long-dated oil futures and options using short-dated securities : revisiting Metallgesellschaft

Doran, James S.; Ronn, Ehud I. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 8, pp. 1-10

Since the collapse of the Metallgesellschaft AG due to hedging losses in 1993, energy practitioners have been concerned with the ability to hedge long-dated linear and non-linear oil liabilities with short-dated futures and options. This paper identifies a model-free non-parametric approach to...

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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

. Specifically, we use swarm intelligence to find the optimal exercise boundary for an American-style derivative. Swarm intelligence …

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An empirical analysis of the volatility spillover effect between world-leading and the Asian stock markets : implications for portfolio management

Yousaf, Imran; Ali, Shoaib; Wong, Wing Keung - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 13 (2020) 10/226, pp. 1-28

-AGARCH) model to examine both return and volatility spillovers from the USA (developed) and China (Emerging) towards eight emerging … calculate the optimal weights and hedge ratios for the stock portfolios. Our results reveal that both return and volatility … volatility was transmitted from the USA to the majority of the Asian stock markets during the Chinese stock market crash …

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Return and volatility transmission between world-leading and Latin American stock markets : portfolio implications

Yousaf, Imran; Ali, Shoaib; Wong, Wing Keung - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 13 (2020) 7/148, pp. 1-19

This study uses the BEKK-GARCH model to examine the return-and-volatility spillover between the world-leading markets … during the global financial crisis and the crash of the Chinese stock market. Regarding volatility spillover, the results … show the bidirectional volatility transmission between the US and the stock markets of Chile and Mexico during the global …

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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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