Jackwerth, Jens Carsten; Constantinides, George M.; … - 2008
We document widespread violations of stochastic dominance by one-month S&P 500 index call options market over 1986 … distribution. Most of the violations by post-crash options are not due to the smile being too steep: options are underpriced over … substantial increase in violations over 1997-2006. These results do not support the hypothesis that the options market is becoming …