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We analyze the joint cross-section of monthly S&P500 stock index options and monthly CBOE Volatility Index options by constructing and evaluating option combinations that appear undervalued for all permissible values of the latent parameters of the unifying option pricing model and the joint...
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We consider fundamental questions of arbitrage pricing arising when the uncertainty model incorporates volatility … uncertainty. With a standard probabilistic model, essential equivalence between the absence of arbitrage and the existence of an … martingale measure sets, in a dynamic trading framework under absence of prior depending arbitrage. We prove the existence of …
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Derivatives valuation has strong theoretical support because models are derived from the principle that arbitrage … between the derivative and its underlying will eliminate riskless profits and drive the market price to the model value. "No-arbitrage …, not by theories. In this talk, I discuss how different the arbitrage trade is for different markets and different models …
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meaningful, this paper proposes a simple filtering procedure for option prices based on the no-arbitrage principle, in which the … data are adjusted only if basic no-arbitrage conditions are violated. In such case, quotes are adjusted by using …
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There is a close link between prices of equity options and the probability of default of a firm. We show that in the presence of positive expected equity recovery, the standard methods that assume zero equity recovery at default misestimate the probability of default implicit in option prices....
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Using day-end pricing data from a comprehensive data base not readily available outside of China, an algorithm to trade near-the-money call option time spreads on China's SSE 50 ETF was developed and tested. Analysis of in-sample data, suggested profitable trading rules that, when applied to...
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Regulations impose idiosyncratic capital and funding costs for holding derivatives. Capital requirements are costly because derivatives desks are risky businesses; funding is costly in part because regulations increase the minimum funding tenor. Idiosyncratic costs mean no single measure makes...
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The implied volatilities provided by OptionMetrics in the IvyDB database suggest substantial deviations from put-call parity that do not really exist. In S&P 500 options, artificial deviations occur because OptionMetrics uses non-synchronous index and option prices and an average implied...
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This paper reconsiders the predictions of the standard option pricing models in the context of incomplete markets. We relax the completeness assumption of the Black-Scholes (1973) model and as an immediate consequence we can no longer construct a replicating portfolio to price the option....
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We develop a general equilibrium asset pricing model under incomplete information and rational learning to explain the yet unexplained predictability of option prices. In our model, the fundamental dividend growth rate is unknown and subject to breaks, with time periods between breaks that...
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