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investigate the volatility smile derived from liquid call and put options on the Polish WIG20 index which option series expired on … volatilities for moneyness points needed were calculated, then we construct 355 smile curves for calls and puts options to study …
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procedure. I parameterize the underlying exchange rate process as a mixture of log-normals, price the options using Monte Carlo …
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the (far less flexible) original model of Black and Scholes (1973), allowing non-trivial higher moments such as skewness …, excess kurtosis and so on to be incorporated into the pricing of exotic options: Generalising the Gram/Charlier Series A … market involving several currencies, can be used to ensure that the volatility smiles for options on the cross exchange rate …
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We argue that Islamic principles, in particular the avoidance of ribā and gharar should be applied with respect to real economic value rather than to monetary value in terms of conventional currency. In order to reconcile monetary value with economic value, we propose a reference currency...
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The Gram-Charlier expansion, where skewness and kurtosis directly appear as parameters, has become popular in Finance …
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truncated Gram-Charlier series where skewness and kurtosis directly appear as parameters. However, the existing literature is …
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We develop a quantitative model to select hedge funds in the long-short equity sector. The selection strategy is verified on a survivorship-bias-free hedge fund database, from January 1990 to September 2002. We focus on the hedge funds acting exclusively in the U.S. market. We identify...
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This is an introduction to a five-volume collection of papers on financial econometrics to be published by Edward Elgar Publishers in 2007. Financial econometrics is one of the fastest growing branches of economics today, both in academia and in industry. The increasing sophistication of...
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