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One key stylized fact in the empirical option pricing literature is the existence of an implied volatility surface (IVS). The usual approach consists of fitting a linear model linking the implied volatility to the time to maturity and the moneyness, for each cross section of options data....
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prices. Applications to value-at-risk and portfolio choice calculations illustrate the importance of using arbitrage …
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One key stylized fact in the empirical option pricing literature is the existence of an implied volatility surface (IVS). The usual approach consists of fitting a linear model linking the implied volatility to the time to maturity and the moneyness, for each cross section of options data....
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This paper shows that many of the empirical biases of the Black and Scholes option pricing model can be explained by Bayesian learning effects. In the context of an equilibrium model where dividend news evolve on a binomial lattice with unknown but recursively updated probabilities we derive...
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performance of individual securities. Risk premia (spreads) increase with the proportion of traders in the market who are averse …
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Bank represent a risk factor for the hedge fund industry as a whole and for ten commonly used strategies in particular …. Using modified event studies and Markov switching models, we find that UMP announcements represent a risk factor for … through breaks in the parameters of the conventional risk factors. Using Chow and Bai-Perron tests, we find that for the …
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Regime switching models have been assuming an increasingly central role in financial applications because of their well-known ability to capture the presence of rich non-linear patterns in the joint distribution of asset returns. After reviewing key concepts and technical issues related to...
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equity premium and the risk-free rate puzzles, and the occurrence of trading break-downs. Copyright Springer Science …
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