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value of the exercise price. Extension of the second formula's approach to third options value derives the third formula. A …
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We derive an estimator for Black-Scholes-Merton implied volatility that, when compared to the familiar Corrado & Miller [JBaF, 1996] estimator, has substantially higher approximation accuracy and extends over a wider region of moneyness.
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-style options. We introduce a skewed version of the Student-t distribution, whose main advantage is that its shape depends on only … to compare different distributions and use the parameters as inputs to price other options. We explain the method … provides a better fit to market prices of options than the Shimko or implied tree models, and has a lower computation time than …
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We propose a simple model in which realized stock market return volatility and implied volatility backed out of option prices are subject to common level shifts corresponding to movements between bull and bear markets. The model is estimated using the Kalman filter in a generalization to the...
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The illiquidity of long-maturity options has made it difficult to study the term structures of option spanning …
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, 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 …
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procedure. I parameterize the underlying exchange rate process as a mixture of log-normals, price the options using Monte Carlo …
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the prices of options on Euribor futures. It is the first official and freely available dataset to span the complete … history of Euribor futures options, thus comprising over ten years of daily data, from 13 January 1999 onwards. Time series of …
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While most empirical analysis of prediction markets treats prices of binary options as predictions of the probability …
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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 …
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