cor-relations and volatility spillovers between crude oil and stock index returns, pricing exotic options using the Wang …: evidence from S&P100 index and equity options, the performance of commodity trading advi-sors: a mean-variance-ratio test … catastrophe options with counterparty risk, day of the week effect on the VIX - a parsimonious representation, equity and CDS …

options on the S&P 500 futures expire (pinning) and are pushed away from the cost-of-carry adjusted at-the-money strike price … right before the expiration of options on the S&P 500 index (anti-cross-pinning). These effects are driven by the interplay … (and early exercise) of in-the-money options by individual investors. The associated shift in notional futures value is at …

option holdings to assess how mutual funds employ options, what funds use options, and how that affects performance and risk …. Mutual funds’ use of options appears consistent with income generation and hedging motives, is systematically related to …. Instead, certain uses of options lead to underperformance. We document no permanent or temporary aggressive risk taking by …