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Consistent with models in which intermediaries absorb net demand pressure from end-users and respond by changing prices, net option demand is positively related to option prices in the market for VIX puts and VIX calls. These findings are consistent with existing results for S&P 500 index (SPX)...
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Bermudan cancelable features. We consider a three-factor pricing model with FX volatility skew which results in a time …
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In the past decade, financial institutions have assumed an ever greater role in energy derivatives (or “paper”) markets. Numerous recent studies provide novel evidence of this “financialization” and analyze the extent to which it helps explain an important aspect of the distribution of...
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In the past decade, financial institutions have assumed an ever greater role in energy derivatives (or “paper”) markets. Numerous recent studies provide novel evidence of this “financialization” and analyze the extent to which it helps explain an important aspect of the distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108520
We propose a model of volatility tail behavior, in which the pricing measure dominates the physical measure in both … tails of the volatility distribution and, hence, the derived pricing kernel exhibits an increasing and decreasing region in … the volatility dimension. The model features investors who have heterogeneity in beliefs about volatility outcomes, and …
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recently. - Horizontal dependence of volatility: Volatility is not constant, it is mean-reverting and it tends to cluster … (meaning that high volatility is likely to be followed by high volatility periods, and vice-versa). Moreover, volatility … theory - stated differently, the returns distribution has fat tails. Moreover, shocks have a strong impact on volatility and …
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Volatility trading is in vogue. Launched in January 2009, exchange-traded products (ETPs) linked to the CBOE Market … Volatility Index (VIX) have enamored no small number of traders judging by the billions of dollars invested in these new products …
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occasional large epiphanies concerning the management of volatility.This article outlines how philosophers, physicists, and … financial modelers have quantified the notion of derivatives, diffusion, risk, volatility, the riskless rate, diversification …, hedging, replication, and the principle of no riskless arbitrage. Volatility, once a qualitative term, has become an asset …
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incorporating stochastic interest rates and stochastic volatility. Several hedging schemes are considered including delta, gamma … interest rate models, an improvement that becomes more pronounced over periods with high interest rate volatility, such as … volatility and the hedge is subject to high basis risk, adding interest rate hedge to delta hedge provides an improvement, while …
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Using actual over the counter (OTC) foreign exchange derivative trading data, this paper studies the relationship … between trading volume and volatility for the OTC market and futures markets for the Canadian dollar over the period January … (futures) market shows uni-(bi-) directional causality to the volatility to both spot and futures markets. Finally, the OTC and …
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