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Commodity derivatives were introduced in India with a dual purpose of promoting price discovery and enhancing risk management in the commodities market. A transaction tax (of 0.01 per cent) on commodity futures trading was introduced in the Union Budget 2013-14. This study examines the rationale...
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We examine whether the option market leads the stock market with respect to positive in addition to negative price discovery. We document that out-of-themoney (OTM) option prices, which determine the Risk-Neutral Skewness (RNS) of the underlying stock return's distribution, can embed positive...
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"If there is no priced risk--including volatility risk--associated with hedging an option, then expected delta hedging … hypothesis that delta hedging errors reflect rational pricing; foreign exchange volatility and stock market volatility predict … them. Moreover, foreign exchange volatility also predicts excess stock market returns, indicating that foreign exchange …
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This paper studies the information content of the S&P 500 and VIX markets on the volatility of the S&P 500 returns. We … risk-neutral distributions as well as the term structure of volatility smiles and of variance risk premia. We find that the …
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the variance of idiosyncratic returns. The estimation is performed on a time series of returns and option prices from 2006 …
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We derive a model-free option-based formula to estimate the contribution of market frictions to expected returns (CFER) within an asset pricing setting. We estimate CFER for the U.S. optionable stocks. We document that CFER is sizable, it predicts stock returns and it subsumes the effect of...
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This paper studies volatility spillovers in credit default swaps (CDS) between the corporate sectors and Latin American …
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volatility to estimate the changing spillover of global oil shocks into the Maltese economy during the period that goes from …
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volatility transmission from Brent Oil, UK Natural Gas, Rotterdam Coal, Gold, Silver, Copper, and EuroStoxx600 future prices to … models, and Time-Varying parameter Vector Auto Regressive models with Stochastic Volatility with the use of a comprehensive … markets significantly influencing volatility in EUA prices. The time-varying spillover effect is most pronounced with a one …
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