Die risikoneutrale Verteilung von Renditen, wie sie von S&P 500 Optionen impliziert wird, ist ein seit Jahren beliebtes Forschungsthema in den Finanzwissenschaften. Durch ihre vorausschauende Eigenschaft liefert diese Verteilung und im Speziellen ihre Momente, wertvolle Einsichten in die...

Leverage Exchange Traded Funds (LETF's) returns tend to deviate from their underlying assets' multiple returns as their holding period increase, a phenomenon known as volatility decay. Algebraically, it is shown that volatility decay is intensified for inverse leveraged funds and as the leverage...

We present a multiscale analysis of the price dynamics of U.S. sector exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Our methodology features a multiscale noise-assisted approach, called the complementary ensemble empirical mode decomposition (CEEMD), that decomposes any financial time series into a number of...