The cost of systemic risk in the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market is described and estimated. Modern portfolio theory (MPT), applied to OTC derivatives, predicts this cost, which has been growing since 1970. This cost grew because Congress blocked MPT's predicted market forces. Without...

Using actual over the counter (OTC) foreign exchange derivative trading data, this paper studies the relationship between trading volume and volatility for the OTC market and futures markets for the Canadian dollar over the period January 1998 to September 2005. Pair-wise regressions are...

This paper investigates the effects of the issuance of retail products with non-linear payoffs on option prices. For a given underlying asset, when the outstanding volume of products embedding a short-put position increases, implied volatility at the corresponding strike decreases. A similar...

Using a vector error correction model I test whether shocks in the funding liquidity conditions in the U.S. and Europe separately explain deviations from the covered interest parity (CIP) between the U.S. Dollar and the Mexican Peso. I find that: (1) Apparent deviations from the CIP seem to be...

The present paper attempts to identify the ways that the United Arab Emirate listed companies manage their financial risk with the use of derivatives. By examining the companies' annual reports and financial reviews for the year 2015. The studied revealed that low use of the financial...

The martingale hypothesis for daily and weekly rates of change of futures prices for five currencies is tested in this paper. With daily data, we find some evidence against the null hypothesis for each currency. Although institutionally imposed limits on daily price changes were binding fairly...

Using interest rate derivative market prices, this paper derives the term structure of the LIBOR-overnight index swap (OIS) spread, which is considered as the funding liquidity risk premium, following the Cox–Ingersoll–Ross model. The probability density functions of the LIBOR-OIS spread...

Currency derivatives are an important tool to manage foreign exchange risk, hedging. Organizations transacting, investing, or operating in other nations appreciate the possibility of managing currency risk. Investors, financial institutions, and businesses use currency derivatives to complement...

In his Berkshire Hathaway annual newsletter to investors c.20 years ago, Warren Buffett while discussing the Long Term Capital Management LTCM and Enron collapses, famously called derivatives: "financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially...

We establish general theory of foreign exchange derivatives (FXD), for multidimensional, possibly incomplete, Itô SDE market/econometric models. The established theory is consistent with the one of foreign exchange rates (FXR) introduced by the author in a previous note. A very simple example...