We report the results of an experiment designed to study whether or not having experienced booms and crashes in naturally occurring asset markets affects subjects’ trading behavior in the lab. Active investors in the Shanghai Stock Exchange were recruited to participate in either the Boom...

We address three questions relating to the interest rate options market: What is the shape of the smile? What are the economic determinants of the shape of the smile? Do these determinants have predictive power for the future shape of the smile and vice versa? We investigate these issues using...

This paper presents a model of the joint behavior of liquidity and volatility. In the model, investors extrapolate recent price movements to forecast the volatility of a risky asset. When the perceived volatility is high, the risk premium is high, the current return on the risky asset is low,...

Can the liquidity premium in asset prices, as documented in the exchange-traded equity and bond markets, be generalized to the over-the-counter (OTC) derivative markets? Using OTC euro (euro;) interest rate cap and floor data, we find that illiquid options trade at higher prices relative to...

We investigate the interaction of volatility smiles and liquidity in the euro (not;) interest rate option markets, using daily bid and ask prices of interest rate caps/floors. We find that liquidity variables have significant explanatory power for both curvature and asymmetry of the implied...

The objectives of this paper are to examine the effect of liquidity on interest rate option prices, and to determine whether it is driven by a common systematic factor. Using daily bid and ask prices of euro (not;) interest rate caps/floors, we document a negative effect of liquidity on option...

We address three questions relating to the interest rate options market: What is the shape of the smile? What are the economic determinants of the shape of the smile? Do these determinants have predictive power for the futures shape of the smile and vice versa? We investigate these issues using...

We address three questions relating to the interest rate options market: What is the shape of the smile? What are the economic determinants of the shape of the smile? Do these determinants have predictive power for the future shape of the smile and vice versa? We investigate these issues using...

Using a unique data set of trades and limit orders for Samp;P 500 futures, we decompose the aggregate risk into a component driven by the impact of net market orders and a component unrelated to net orders. The first component -- flow-driven risk -- is large, accounting for approximately 50...

Does the mutual fund industry lose its best managers to hedge funds? We find that mutual funds are able to retain managers with good performance in the face of competition from a growing hedge fund industry. On the other hand, poor performers are more likely to leave the mutual fund industry. A...