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This paper investigates risk-neutral price of European option under dividend barrier strategy when cumulative log-return during time interval [0,t] of the underlying stock in the absence of dividends follows a Brownian motion with drift. Such a dividend barrier strategy means that in the...
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The Financial Instability Hypothesis-FIH (Minsky, 1977) explains the endogenous creation of the business cycle by considering how the economic units contribute to the capital development, and the debt impact. The FIH is a powerful model to describe how financial markets become unstable, also in...
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We examine implications of introducing parameter uncertainty in endowment and production economies for index option premiums. We estimate two-state models of consumption and productivity growth using post-war U.S. data and allow for rational learning about unknown persistence of economic growth....
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are followed by economic recoveries, the slope of the implied volatility term structure is positive in good times but … turns negative in bad times. Additionally, implied volatility decreases with moneyness in bad times (volatility skew), while … the dynamics of the implied volatility surface while keeping standard asset pricing moments realistic …
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asset and its volatility, the price of an option in the model depends on macroeconomic conditions. Using an index of current … two-component volatility benchmark …
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The paper highlights the encountered problems in implementing real options under more realistic assumptions such as business cycle risk and normally distributed cash flows. The problems considered include (i) estimating empirical distribution of cash flows from real option investments; (ii)...
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The pricing kernel is an important tool for understanding asset prices, expected returns, and investor preferences. However, empirical findings often reveal deviations from theoretical predictions, leading to the so-called "pricing kernel puzzle". This article explores the pricing kernel under...
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