We use a series of different approaches to extract information about crash risk from option prices for the Euro …-Dollar exchange rate, with each step sharpening the focus on extracting more specific measures of crash risk around dates of ECB … without precisely describing what exactly they entail does not move asset markets or actually increases crash risk. Also …

three popular stochastic volatility models (Heston, 1993; Bates, 1996; Heston and Nandi, 2'007, in addition to the …

In a tractable stochastic volatility model, we identify the price of the smile as the price of the unspanned risks … traded in SPX option markets. The price of the smile reflects two persistent volatility and skewness risks, which imply a … downward sloping term structure of low-frequency variance risk premia in normal times. In periods of distress, the term …

The 1987 market crash was associated with a dramatic and permanent steepening of the implied volatility curve for …

continuum of moments conditions in GMM with implied states. We introduce a partial-information approach to reduce the … capturing jump contagion for risk management, option pricing, and scenario analysis. …

The 1987 market crash was associated with a dramatic and permanent steepening of the implied volatility curve for … individual stock options, equity returns, and interest rates. -- Volatility Smile ; Volatility Smirk ; Implied Volatility … ; Option Pricing ; Portfolio Insurance ; Market Risk …

-pricing formula applies to far-out-of-the money put options on the stock market when disaster risk dominates, the size distribution of …

In this paper, we propose a novel approach on how to estimate systemic risk and identify its key determinants. For all … affected if the tail risk of the financial sector increases. We find that key accounting and market valuation metrics such as … risk profile of a financial institution. In contrast to earlier studies, the employed panel vector autoregression (PVAR …

This paper uses the method developed by Bollerslev and Todorov (2011b) to estimate risk premia for extreme events for … method to German data yields very similar results to the ones shown for the US data. The risk premia for rare events … constitute a considerable part of the total equity and variance risk premia for both markets. When using the results to build an …