Using a box spread arbitrage strategy, we examine the pricing efficiency of the emerging, thinly traded Hang Seng Index options market in Hong Kong, where market makers operate under a competitive open outcry system. In 20 months of tick-by-tick bid-ask and transaction quotes we find very few...

We derive a risk-neutral pricing model for discrete dynamic guaranteed funds with geometric Gaussian underlying security price process. We propose a dynamic hedging strategy by adding a gamma factor to the conventional delta. Simulation results demonstrate that, when hedging discretely, the...

Recent lifting of short-sales constraints in Hong Kong provides an important opportunity to examine whether such restrictions affect the dynamic relationship between index futures and its underlying spot. The results show that the two prices have become more closely integrated without the...

This paper examines the announcement effects of US-Chinese joint ventures and explores several firm-specific factors which may affect the size of the abnormal returns. A sample of 103 joint ventures during the 1973-1993 period and eight variables, including current ratio, debt ratio, total asset...