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arbitrage. Because of these limits, derivative securities can play primary roles in risk allocation and investors can demand …
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We consider fundamental questions of arbitrage pricing arising when the uncertainty model is given by a set of possible … mutually singular probability measures. With a single probability model, essential equivalence between the absence of arbitrage … equivalent symmetric martingale measure sets, in a dynamic trading framework under absence of prior depending arbitrage. We prove …
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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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Option prices, particularly those of out-of-the-money equity index puts, are difficult to justify in a no-arbitrage … framework. This paper shows how limits to arbitrage affect the relative pricing of out-of-the-money put vs. call options (option … support for the existence of a limits to arbitrage effect on option prices as well as option returns …
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developed which completely characterizes all risk arbitrage opportunities which arise if a well-behaved pricing kernel does not … exist. The Stochastic Arbitrage system can account for market imperfections in the form of transactions costs and general … portfolio restrictions. An active trading strategy based on the Stochastic Arbitrage system for front-month S&P500 stock index …
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A new class of risk measures called cash sub-additive risk measures is introduced to assess the risk of future financial, nonfinancial and insurance positions. The debated cash additive axiom is relaxed into the cash sub-additive axiom to preserve the original difference between the numeraire of...
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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 volatility jump diffusion model
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Even if the name futures indicates a simple instrument, bond futures are complex. Several special features are embedded in the instrument. In particular the future is not written on one specific bond but on a basket of bonds, from which the short side can deliver the cheapest. This paper focuses...
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We introduce a novel approach to estimating latent oil risk factors and establish their significance in pricing non-oil securities. Our model, which features four factors with simple economic interpretations, is estimated using both derivative prices and oil-related equity returns. The fit is...
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Black and Scholes, or the characterization of arbitrage free term structure of interest rates obtained by HJM. Clearly, a …
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