We analyse the pricing of derivatives under a CSA agreement, without considering netting, minimum transfer amounts and thresholds. We come up with a decomposition of the total contract's value in a risk-free component, a liquidity value adjustment and a funding value adjustment. Implications for...

The effects of the discrete monitoring of barrier options is analysed. We determine the costs that a market-maker should charge when making prices for such a kind of exotic options. The costs are related to the Delta-hedging activity around the barrier level between two subsequent monitoring...

Market efficiency and the pricing kernel are closely related. A non-monotonic decreasing pricing kernel implies the existence of a trading strategy in contingent claims that stochastically dominates a direct investment in the market. Moreover, a market is assumed to be efficient only if no...

VaR (Value at Risk) and CVaR (Conditional Value at Risk) are implied by option prices. Their relationships to option prices are derived initially under the pricing measure. It does not require assumptions about the distribution of portfolio returns. The effects of measure change are later...

The forward-looking nature of option market data allows one to derive economically-based and model-free risk measures. This article proposes an extensive analysis of the performances of option-implied VaR and CVaR, and compare them with classical risk measures for the S&P500 Index. Delivering...