Classical business cycles, following Burns and Mitchell (1946), can be defined as the sequential pattern of expansions and contractions in aggregate economic activity. Recently, Harding and Pagan (2002, 2006) have provided an econometric toolkit for the analysis of these cycles, and this has...

"If there is no priced risk--including volatility risk--associated with hedging an option, then expected delta hedging errors should be zero. This paper finds that delta hedging errors of a synthetic at-the-money call option on foreign exchange futures are significantly positive and cannot be...