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procedure. I parameterize the underlying exchange rate process as a mixture of log-normals, price the options using Monte Carlo …
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strategies are also investigated, allowing for limited short selling and the inclusion of synthetic options in the security set. …
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equity options. We find that expectations for future shocks decrease leverage and are statistically significant even when we …
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The Enron Corporation went from a $65 billion dollar market capitalization to bankruptcy in just 16 months. Using statistical techniques for extracting the implied probability distributions built into option prices, I examine the market's expectation of Enron's risk of collapse. I find that the...
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dramatically and permanently changed the shape of the implied volatility curve for equity index options. Here, we propose a general … equilibrium model that captures many salient features of the U.S. equity and options markets before, during, and after the crash … shortmaturity at-the-money and deep out-of- the-money S&P 500 put options, as well as the prices of individual stock options …
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equity index options, despite minimal changes in aggregate consumption. We explain these events within a general equilibrium … individual stock options, equity returns, and interest rates. …
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This paper provides a brief survey of the bootstrap and its use in econometrics. As an introduction, the paper gives a description of the basics of the method, with a special emphasis on boostrap testing. A fairly large amount of space is devoted to discuss why bootstrap tests provide...
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The presence of seasonal fluctuations (regular behavior along the year related to weather or institutional factors) invalidates monthly (quarterly) comparisons. In turn, since inter-annual variations depend on the comparison basis being used, they could provide very little information to the...
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This paper summarizes the background, type, logic, and working procedure of the statistical matching used in the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW) project to combine the various data sets used to produce the synthetic data set with which the LIMEW is constructed. The authors...
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Propensity score based-estimators are commonly used to estimate causal effects in evaluation research. To reduce bias in observational studies researchers might be tempted to include many, perhaps correlated, covariates when estimating the propensity score model. Taking into account that the...
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