It is a well-known and extensively studied phenomenon that market participants in possession of private information actively trade in the stock market. Less known and researched are informed trading activities in the options market. Nevertheless, various incentives such as low initial capital,...

Diese Dissertation besteht aus drei individuellen Aufsätzen, die jeweils eine in sich geschlossene Forschungsarbeit darstellt. Im ersten Aufsatz, "Out-of-Sample Performance of Jump-Diffusion Models for Equity Indices: What the Financial Crisis was Good For", analysieren wir die out-of-sample...