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Option-implied term structures
Vogt, Erik - 2014
The illiquidity of long-maturity options has made it difficult to study the term structures of option spanning …
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Dynamic jump intensities and risk premiums in crude oil futures and options markets
Christoffersen, Peter F.; Jacobs, Kris; Li, Bingxin - 2016
Options on crude oil futures are the most actively traded commodity options. We develop a class of computationally … efficient discrete-time jump models that allow for closed-form option valuation, and we use crude oil futures and options data … crucial for modeling crude oil futures and futures options, and we find evidence in favor of time-varying jump intensities …
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Relative pricing and risk premia in equity volatility markets
Van Tassel, Peter - 2018
This paper provides empirical evidence that volatility markets are integrated through the time-varying term structure of variance risk premia. These risk premia predict the returns from selling volatility for different horizons, maturities, and products, including variance swaps, straddles, and...
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Volatility risk measures and banks' leverage
Anselmi, Giulio - 2024
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The pricing of subprime mortgage risk in good times and bad : evidence from the ABX.HE indices
Fender, Ingo; Scheicher, Martin - 2009
This paper investigates the market pricing of subprime mortgage risk on the basis of data for the ABX.HE family of indices, which have become a key barometer of mortgage market conditions during the recent financial crisis. After an introduction into ABX index mechanics and a discussion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003866554
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The equity premium and the volatility spread : the role of risk-neutral skewness
Feunou, Bruno; Fontaine, Jean-Sébastien; Tedongap, Roméo - 2009
We introduce the Homoscedastic Gamma [HG] model where the distribution of returns is characterized by its mean, variance and an independent skewness parameter under both measures. The model predicts that the spread between historical and risk-neutral volatilities is a function of the risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003852916
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Risk premia in electricity wholesale spot markets : empirical evidence from Germany
Pietz, Matthäus - 2009
This paper contributes to the ongoing discussion on price formation in electricity markets. For this, we conduct an analysis of the German electricity wholesale spot market which is located at the European Energy Exchange (EEX). Our dataset covers three spot market segments, namely the intraday...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919564
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The term structure of risk premia : new evidence from the financial crisis
Berg, Tobias - 2010
This study calibrates the term structure of risk premia before and during the 2007/2008 financial crisis using a new calibration approach based on credit default swaps. The risk premium term structure was flat before the crisis and downward sloping during the crisis. The instantaneous risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971282
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Broker-dealer risk appetite and commodity returns
Etula, Erkko M. - 2010 - Rev.
This paper shows that the risk-bearing capacity of U.S. securities brokers and dealers is a strong determinant of risk premia in commodity markets. Commodity derivatives are the principal instrument used by producers and consumers of commodities to hedge against commodity price risk....
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The forward premium puzzle and latent factors day by day
Bernoth, Kerstin; Hagen, Jürgen von; Vries, Casper G. de - 2010
We use futures instead of forward rates to study the complete maturity spectrum of the forward premium puzzle from two days to six months. At short maturities the slope coefficient is positive, but these turn negative as the maturity increases to the monthly level. Futures data allow us to...
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