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This study, through empirical evidence of 3,081 US firms during the period of 1992-2009, shows a strong causal relation between different CEO compensation components and firms' investment policy and firm risk. Specifically, the proportion of CEO option-based compensation is positively and...
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implied and historical volatilities. The fourth factor is the market volatility risk factor proxied by the delta-hedged option …This paper studies the factor structure of the cross-section of delta-hedged equity option returns. We find that a four … based factors from the long-short option portfolios based on firm size, idiosyncratic volatility, and the difference between …
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We study the problem of a fund manager whose contractual incentive is given by the sum of a constant and a variable term. The manager has a power utility function and the continuous time stochastic processes driving the dynamics of the market prices exhibit mean reversion either in the...
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This paper improves continuous-time variance swap approximation formulas to derive exact returns on benchmark VIX option portfolios. The new methodology preserves the variance swap interpretation that decomposes returns into realized variance and option implied-variance.We apply this new...
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their underlying stocks that provide incremental information for the cross-sectional variation of expected delta …
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