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We examine the returns to investors in publicly traded stock in new industries. We examine data from the United States on sellers of own-brand personal computers, airlines and airplane manufacturers, automobile manufacturers, railroads, and telegraphs. We find that a relatively small number of...
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Money markets have two functions, the allocation of liquidity and the processing of information. We develop a model that allows us to evaluate the efficiency of different money market derivatives regarding these two objectives. We assume that due to its size, a large bank receives a more precise...
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This paper gives a selective review on the recent developments of nonparametric methods in continuous-time finance, particularly in the areas of nonparametric estimation of diffusion processes, nonparametric testing of parametric diffusion models, and nonparametric pricing of derivatives. For...
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options and the underlying exchange rates provide useful information for policy makers. …
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This report analyses the possibility to outflank disclosure obligations under the German Securities Trading Act as well as the German Takeover Act by using derivative instruments in the context of the attack of Schaeffler KG on Continental AG. Irrespective of a limited knowledge of the complete...
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This paper examines the impact of option listing in the NASDAQ equity market on the bid-ask spread of the underlying stock. We find that both the market adjusted percentage and dollar spreads decrease with option listing, which is consistent with a value enhancing impact of derivative security...
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The illiquidity of long-maturity options has made it difficult to study the term structures of option spanning … long-maturity illiquidity. By building a sieve estimator around the risk-neutral valuation equation, the framework …
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equity options. We find that expectations for future shocks decrease leverage and are statistically significant even when we …
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financial crisis. To this end, we derive risk-neutral densities from the implied volatilities of FX options, which approximate …-of-sample predictive power of indicators. The forecasting results suggest that models based on FX options are inferior to the random walk …
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, with evidence from listed firms in Taiwan, pricing options on stocks denominated in different currencies, with theory and … simple model free volatility in a high frequency world, arbitrage-free implied volatility surfaces for options on single … stock futures, the non-uniform pricing effect of employee stock options using quantile regression, nonlinear dynamics and …
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