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This paper examines calendar anomalies (day-of-the-week and monthly seasonal effects) in cash and stock index futures returns. We consider daily data from FTSE100 (UK), FTSE/ASE-20 (Greece), S&P500 (US) and Nasdaq100 (US) spot and future indexes over the period 2004–2011. We employ a...
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There is a long history of research into the impact of trading activity and information on financial market volatility. Based on 10 years of unique data on news items relating to gold and crude oil broadcast over the Reuters network, this study has two objectives. It investigates the impact of...
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Futures contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange are the most liquid instruments for trading crude oil, which is the world’s most actively traded physical commodity. Under normal market conditions, traders can easily find counterparties for their trades, resulting in an efficient market...
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cor-relations and volatility spillovers between crude oil and stock index returns, pricing exotic options using the Wang …: evidence from S&P100 index and equity options, the performance of commodity trading advi-sors: a mean-variance-ratio test … catastrophe options with counterparty risk, day of the week effect on the VIX - a parsimonious representation, equity and CDS …
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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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The volatility information content of stock options for individual firms is measured using option prices for 149 U …, but the option forecasts are nearly always more informative for those firms that have the more actively traded options …. When the prediction horizon extends until the expiry date of the options, the option forecasts are more informative than …
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volatility, skewness, kurtosis, and density forecasting. More generally, we discuss how any forecasting object which is a twice …
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, but also conditional skewness and kurtosis information, when forming direction-of-change forecasts. …
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, but also conditional skewness and kurtosis information, when forming direction-of-change forecasts. …
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The returns of many financial assets show significant skewness, but in the literature this issue is only marginally …
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