We examine buy and hold and a number of rebalancing strategies on a portfolio of indices that are tracked by ETFs. The indices include Barkley's treasuries and MSCI indices on emerging markets, Pacific and European markets, value funds, and growth funds. Portfolios are rebalanced using threshold...

Equilibrium and arbitrage-based option pricing models are based on the assumption that the derivative and its underlying asset are simultaneously observable. However, empirical testing with transactions data must deal with less than perfect synchronicity and windows defining a ‘match’...

<section xml:id="fut21667-sec-0001"> The lattice approximation to a continuous time process is an especially useful way to value American and real options. We choose lattice probabilities by extending density matching for diffusions to density matching for jump diffusions. Technically, this requires that diffusion and jump...</section>

Models in financial economics derived from no-arbitrage assumptions are standard fare among theoreticians and practitioners. However, several authors have investigated the impact of short lived arbitrage on European options using models borrowed from disequilibria in physics. In this paper, we...

We examine the size and price-to-book effects in Chinese markets. We find strong evidence for the size effect but little evidence for the price-to-book effect. We further examine these effects in the context of the monetary policy of the People's Bank of China. We find that the size effect is...

We evaluate the performance of delta, delta-gamma and delta-vega hedges on the S%P 500 futures options with a particular focus on importance of daily volatility updating and the use of price-change implied volatility. Our findings indicate that the hedging performance of Black's model improves...

We develop a new volatility measure: the volatility implied by price changes in option contracts and their underlying. We refer to this as price-change implied volatility. We compare moneyness and maturity effects of price-change and implied volatilities, and their performance in delta hedging....

We study premiums/discounts associated with ETFs using the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process augmented with jumps. Our results confirm the high efficiency of the ETFs' arbitrage pricing mechanism. The median long-term mean premium of U.S. equity ETFs is zero. International equity ETFs and bond ETFs...