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We develop an incomplete markets framework to synthesize domestic and foreign stochastic discount factors (SDFs) that are consistent with limited international risk sharing. The fundamental departure in our paper is that exchange rate growth need not equal the ratio of SDFs, and we develop a...
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This paper documents the fact that in options markets, the (percentage) implied volatility bid-ask spread increases at … microstructure model for the bid-ask spread in options markets. We first construct a static equilibrium model to illustrate the …
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In this paper, we analyze equilibrium in incomplete markets of random endowments by adopting utility indifference pricing and utility-based pricing. Addressing model uncertainty, we also consider agents who adopt max/min expected utility and a risk management policy. Using this framework, we...
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, the dynamic hedging of diffusion movement outperforms static hedging which considers both diffusion and jump risks … together, and market makers should apply a dynamic hedging strategy most of the time. A testable implication of quoting … behavior, which assumes market makers apply dynamic hedging, is ratified in our empirical work. Additionally, our regression …
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We examine the optimal customization of a financial derivative in the presence of a background risk. This problem includes the model of finding the optimal constant amount of a given pecuniary risk as a degenerated case. We show the importance of this perspective with a preference-free solution...
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An economy faces an unknown individual risk, such as the health effects of a recently discovered environmental hazard. Opinions may be widely different about the distribution of risks across the population. We study financial markets that suffice to reach efficient allocations in this situation....
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An economy faces an unknown individual risk, such as the health effects of a recently discovered environmental hazard. Opinions may be widely different about the distribution of risks across the population. We study financial markets that suffice to reach efficient allocations in this situation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014045091
We study option pricing and hedging with uncertainty about a Black-Scholes reference model which is dynamically … option, delta-vega hedging is asymptotically optimal in the limit for small uncertainty aversion. The corresponding … the liquidly traded options …
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We study the pricing and hedging of derivative securities with uncertainty about the volatility of the underlying asset … for prices and hedging strategies in terms of the security's cash gamma …
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We investigate the effect of including variance derivatives as calibration and hedging instruments for pricing and … hedging exotic structures. This is studied empirically using market data for SPX and VIX derivatives applied in a stochastic …
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