Many models have been suggested to describe how investors manage risk and value risky cash flows. Among them, the most widely used is the Sharpe-Lintner-Black Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). However many anomalies and evidence against this version have been presented. To assume that the CAPM...

The paper studies estimation of implied volatility and the impact of the choice of the corresponding risk-free rate proxy. We suggest to analyze the implied volatility and the risk-free rate proxy inferred in conjunction from the observed option prices. We formulate and solve an overdefined...

This study provides an in-depth analysis of how to estimate risk-neutral moments robustly. A simulation and an empirical study show that estimating risk- neutral moments presents a trade-off between (1) the bias of estimates caused by a limited strike price domain and (2) the variance of...

This paper describes and applies a nonparametric model for pricing multivariate contingent claims. Multivariate contingent claims are contracts whose payoffs depend on the future prices of more than one underlying variable. The pricing however of these kinds of contracts represents a challenge....

Bitcoin Pricing Kernels (PK) are estimated using a novel data set from Deribit, one of the largest Bitcoin derivatives exchanges. The PKs improve the understanding of investor sentiment and risk premia. Bootstrap-based confidence bands are estimated in order to validate the results. Investors...

We provide the first comprehensive analysis of option information for pricing the cross-section of stock returns by jointly examining extensive sets of firm and option characteristics. Using portfolio sorts and high-dimensional methods, we show that certain option measures have significant...

Options depending on the forward skew are very popular. One such option is the forward starting call option - the basic building block of a cliquet option. Widely applied models to account for the forward skew dynamics to price such options include the Heston model, the Heston-Hull-White model...

This paper proposes an approach for solving a multi-factor real options problem by approximating the underlying stochastic process with an implied binomial tree. The implied binomial tree is constructed to be consistent with simulated market information. By simulating European option prices as...

By exploiting the flexibility of the Wishart process, we propose an application of this framework to the pricing of Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) volatility index (VIX) options. Our methodology is analytically tractable and yet flexible enough to efficiently price CBOE VIX options. In...

The aims of this paper are twofold. Firstly, we present an approximating formula for pricing basket and multi-asset spread options, which genuinely extends Caldana and Fusai (2013) two-asset spread options formula. Secondly, under the lognormal setting, we show that our formula becomes a Black...