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procedure is implemented on prices of credit default swaps and equity options for GM and FORD over the period October 2004 to …
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Optimal portfolios of variance swaps are constructed taking account of both autocorrelation and cross asset dependencies. Market prices of variance swaps are extracted from option surface calibrations. The methods developed permit simulation of cash flows to arbitrary portfolios of variance...
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The theory of pricing to acceptability developed for incomplete markets by Cherny and Madan (2009b) is applied to marking ones own default risk. It is observed in agreement with Heckman (2004), that assets and liabilities are not to be priced under fair value accounting principles at the same...
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The concept of stress levels embedded in S&P 500 options are defined and illustrated with explicit constructions. The … scaling to the option maturity. Static hedging of basket options to a particular level of acceptability is shown to …
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When firms access unbounded liability exposures and are granted limited liability, then an all equity firm holds a call option, whereby it receives a free option to put losses back to the taxpayers. We call this option the taxpayer put, where the strike is the negative of the level of reserve...
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Realized variance option and options on quadratic variation normalized to unit expectation are analyzed for the … property of monotonicity in maturity for call options at a fixed strike. When this condition holds the risk neutral densities … analysis of squared log returns on the S&P 500 index also reveals such a decrease. If options are priced to a slightly …
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equation driven by centered variance gamma shocks. VIX options are calibrated using the square root process. The OU equation … driven by centered variance gamma shocks is applied in pricing options on the ratio of the stock price for J. P. Morgan Chase … option pricing model to market data, we indirectly infer the prices for stock options on JPM from the prices for options on …
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in deflated price processes is then addressed. Applications include the pricing of options on relativities and the asset …
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by the solution of a partial integro differential equation. Options on the stock are then options on this function of the …
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