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Nonparametric Estimation of State-Price Densities Implicit in Financial Asset Prices
Ait-Sahalia, Yacine - 2010
Implicit in the prices of traded financial assets are Arrow- Debreu state prices or, in the continuous-state case, the state-price density (SPD). We construct an estimator for the SPD implicit in option prices and derive an asymptotic sampling theory for this estimator to gauge its accuracy. The...
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A Direct Approach to Arbitrage-Free Pricing of Credit Derivatives
Das, Sanjiv Ranjan - 2010
to compute more complicated derivative securities …
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On the Economic Consequences of Index-Linked Investing
Wurgler, Jeffrey - 2010
Trillions of dollars are invested through index funds, exchange-traded funds, and other index derivatives. The benefits of index-linked investing are well-known, but the possible broader economic consequences are unstudied. I review research which suggests that index-linked investing is...
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Valuation of Variance Forecast with Simulated Option Markets
Engle, Robert F. - 2010
An appropriate metric for the success of an algorithm to forecast the variance of the rate of return on a capital asset could be the incremental profit from substituting it for the next best alternative. We propose a framework to assess incremental profits for competing algorithms to forecast...
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Security Baskets and Index-Linked Securities
Gorton, Gary B. - 2010
Security baskets and index-lined securities are securities whose values are functions of the cash flows or values of other assets. Creation of these "composite" securities would seem to be redundant since investors can cost1ess1y replicate them. In this paper we study the existence and optimal...
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Should Derivatives Be Privileged in Bankruptcy?
Bolton, Patrick - 2011
Derivative contracts, swaps, and repos enjoy "super-senior" status in bankruptcy: they are exempt from the automatic …, even though this risk could be borne more efficiently by derivative counterparties. In addition, because super …-senior derivatives dilute existing creditors, they may lead firms to take on derivative positions that are too large from a social …
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Too-Systemic-To-Fail : What Option Markets Imply About Sector-Wide Government Guarantees
Kelly, Bryan T. - 2011
Investors in option markets price in a substantial collective government bailout guarantee in the financial sector, which puts a floor on the equity value of the financial sector as a whole, but not on the value of the individual firms. The guarantee makes put options on the financial sector...
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FX Counterparty Risk and Trading Activity in Currency Forward and Futures Markets
Levich, Richard M. - 2012
The Global Financial Crisis initiated a period of market turbulence and increased counterparty risk for financial institutions. Even though the Dodd-Frank Act is likely to exempt interbank foreign exchange trading from a central counterparty mandate, market participants have the option to trade...
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The Market for OTC Derivatives
Atkeson, Andrew - 2013
We develop a model of equilibrium entry, trade, and price formation in over-the- counter (OTC) markets. Banks trade derivatives to share an aggregate risk subject to two trading frictions: they must pay a fixed entry cost, and they must limit the size of the positions taken by their traders...
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Measuring Margin
McDonald, Robert L. - 2013
Policy makers and market participants alike wish to understand the amount, economic significance, and concentration of derivatives trading activity. This paper suggests that systematic measuring and reporting of margin by market participants, disaggregated by asset class, would provide more...
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