investigate the volatility smile derived from liquid call and put options on the Polish WIG20 index which option series expired on … volatilities for moneyness points needed were calculated, then we construct 355 smile curves for calls and puts options to study …

equity options. We find that expectations for future shocks decrease leverage and are statistically significant even when we …

The illiquidity of long-maturity options has made it difficult to study the term structures of option spanning …

announcements and use at-the-money options to exploit their informational advantage. In the post-event period, however, informed … option investors trade by using deep-out-of-the-money and out-of-the-money options. We documented limited evidence on the …

procedure. I parameterize the underlying exchange rate process as a mixture of log-normals, price the options using Monte Carlo …

cor-relations and volatility spillovers between crude oil and stock index returns, pricing exotic options using the Wang …: evidence from S&P100 index and equity options, the performance of commodity trading advi-sors: a mean-variance-ratio test … catastrophe options with counterparty risk, day of the week effect on the VIX - a parsimonious representation, equity and CDS …

, with evidence from listed firms in Taiwan, pricing options on stocks denominated in different currencies, with theory and … simple model free volatility in a high frequency world, arbitrage-free implied volatility surfaces for options on single … stock futures, the non-uniform pricing effect of employee stock options using quantile regression, nonlinear dynamics and …

The volatility information content of stock options for individual firms is measured using option prices for 149 U …, but the option forecasts are nearly always more informative for those firms that have the more actively traded options …. When the prediction horizon extends until the expiry date of the options, the option forecasts are more informative than …