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An experimental study on real option strategies

Wang, Mei; Bernstein, Abraham; Chesney, Marc - 2009

We conduct a laboratory experiment to study whether people intuitively use real-option strategies in a dynamic investment setting. The participants were asked to play as an oil manager and make production decisions in response to a simulated mean-reverting oil price. Using cluster analysis,...

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American Parisian Options

Chesney, Marc; Gauthier, Laurent - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2006

In this article, we describe the various sorts of American Parisian options and propose valuation formulae. Although there is no closed-form valuation for these products in the non perpetual case, we have been able to reformulate their price as a function of the exercise frontier. In the...

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Detecting Informed Trading Activities in the OptionsMarkets

Chesney, Marc; Crameri, Remo; Mancini, Loriano - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2009

This paper presents a new method to detect informed trading activities in the options markets.An option trade is identified as informed when it is characterized by an unusual largeincrement in open interest and volume, induces large gains, and is not hedged in the stock market.For the period...

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The endogenous price dynamics of the emission allowances : an application to CO 2 option pricing

Chesney, Marc; Taschinia, Luca - 2008

Market mechanisms are increasingly being used as a tool for allocating somewhat scarce but unpriced rights and resources, and the European Emission Trading Scheme is an example. By means of dynamic optimization in the contest of firms covered by such environmental regulations, this paper...

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Detecting informed trading activities in the options markets

Chesney, Marc; Crameri, Remo; Mancini, Loriano - 2011

We develop statistical methods to detect informed trading in options markets. We apply these methods to 31 companies from various sectors over 14 years analyzing approximately 9.6 million option prices. We find that option informed trading tends to cluster prior to certain events, takes place...

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Detecting informed trading activities in the options markets : appendix on subprime financial crisis

Chesney, Marc; Crameri, Remo; Mancini, Loriano - 2011

This appendix extends the empirical results in Chesney, Crameri, and Mancini (2011). Informed trading activities on put and call options are analyzed for 19 companies in the banking and insurance sectors from January 1996 to September 2009. Our empirical findings suggest that certain events such...

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Market efficiency reloaded: why insider trades do not reveal exploitable information

Dickgiesser, Sebastian; Kaserer, Christoph - 2008

by a subset of stocks with high arbitrage risk as measured by their idiosyncratic volatility. This restrains arbitrageurs … from engaging in otherwise profitable and price-correcting trades. As arbitrage risk is positively related to a stock's bid … mainly be explained by the cost associated with risky arbitrage. Our findings provide evidence that the German stock market …

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Market liquidity risk: an overview

Stange, Sebastian; Kaserer, Christoph - 2009

Market liquidity is the ease of trading an asset. Its risk is the potential loss, because a security can only be traded at high or prohibitive costs. While the omnipresence and importance of market liquidity is widely acknowledged, it has long remained a more or less elusive concept. Treatment...

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Measuring market liquidity risk - which model works best?

Ernst, Cornelia; Stange, Sebastian; Kaserer, Christoph - 2009

Market liquidity risk, the difficulty or cost of trading assets in crises, has been recognized as an important factor in risk management. Literature has already proposed several models to include liquidity risk in the standard Value-at-Risk framework. While theoretical comparisons between those...

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DAXplus family: Ein Aktienindex zur Darstellung der Performance von Familienunternehmen

Achleitner, Ann-Kristin; Kaserer, Christoph; Kauf, Tobias; … - 2010

In January 2010 the Deutsche Börse Group introduced two family firm stock indices. Both indices are calculated as price and performance indices and extend the number of investment strategy indices of Deutsche Börse Group. The DAXplus Family is an all-share index whereas the DAXplus Family 30...

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