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In the paper we present the application of risk neutral measure estimation in the analysis of the index WIG20 from Polish stock market. The risk neutral measure is calculated from the process of the options on that index. We assume that risk neutral measure is the mixture of lognormal...
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In this paper, we derive a closed-form explicit model-free formula for the (Black-Scholes) implied volatility. The method is based on the novel use of the Dirac Delta function, corresponding delta families, and the change of variable technique. The formula is expressed through either a limit or...
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I use five separate measures of deviation from Put-Call Parity of options on a stock without splits or dividends as separate negative measures for market efficiency. I rely upon the theory of trading volume as a function of short sales costs, etc., and that of market efficiency as a function of...
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In the U.S. stock and options markets from January 1996 to December 2013, we examine whether information uncertainty … the portfolios held by one month. In our results, changes in information uncertainty are in tandem with changes in implied …, we provide novel evidence that the uncertainty of information concerning a firm's fundamental underlying volatility …
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volatility spread – around significant information events such as earnings announcements and unscheduled corporate announcements …. They conclude that option traders have an information advantage over equity traders prior to a variety of information … presentation, including the distinction between information processing and information acquisition; the volatility measures used by …
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Asset price processes are completely described by information processes and investors´ preferences. In this paper we … stylized facts that look at first hand like financial market anomalies may be explained by an information process with …
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Asset price processes are completely described by information processes and investors´ preferences. In this paper we … stylized facts that look at first hand like financial market anomalies may be explained by an information process with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445936
A company can go bankrupt if the value of its assets drops below the debt level. This event can happen at any point in time. This is however not taken into account in the plain vanilla option framework of the Merton model. Theoretically, the barrier version of the Merton model shall therefore be...
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This paper shows that the VIX market contains information on the variance of the S&P 500 returns, which is not already …
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We study the real-time characteristics and drivers of jumps in option prices. To this end, we employ high frequency data from the 24-hour E-mini S&P 500 options market. We find that option prices do not jump simultaneously across strikes and maturities and are uncorrelated with jumps in the...
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