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European style options for various maturities. We analyze the validity of the model given its ability to price one-day ahead … out-of-sample call options and also its ability to capture the empirical dynamic of the volatility skew. First, we get a … severe mispricing for deep out-of-the-money and short term call options. Second, this model reveals a good ability to capture …
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This article analyses, for the first time, the financial impact on the French market of September 11th, 2001. Was there any information asymmetry around this date? How deep was the reaction of the French investors? This study measures the magnitude of the shock in the stock price process.
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Financial contagion and systemic risk measures are commonly derived from conditional quantiles by using imposed model assumptions such as a linear parametrization. In this paper, we provide model free measures for contagion and systemic risk which are independent of the specifcation of...
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discrepancy between the IV smiles for levered and unlevered ETF options. We construct bootstrap uniform confidence bands which … options which possibly have a positive value at the point of creation and non-negative value at the expiration time. An … ETF options to construct theoretical one-step-ahead implied volatility surfaces. The codes used to obtain the results in …
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This article investigates the presence of outliers in the volatility of carbon prices. We compute three different measures of volatility for European Union Allowances, based on daily data (EGARCH model), option prices (implied volatility), and intraday data (realized volatility). Based on the...
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This paper analyzes empirical market utility functions and pricing kernels derived from the DAX and DAX option data for three market regimes. A consistent parametric framework of stochastic volatility is used. All empirical market utility functions show a region of risk proclivity that is...
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Market option prices in last 20 years confirmed deviations from the Black and Scholes (BS) models assumptions, especially on the BS implied volatility. Implied binomial trees (IBT) models capture the variations of the implied volatility known as "volatility smile". They provide a discrete...
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In this paper we introduce the dynamic semiparametric factor model (DSFM) for electricity forward curves. The biggest advantage of our approach is that it not only leads to smooth, seasonal forward curves extracted from exchange traded futures and forward electricity contracts, but also to a...
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