Supposed portfolio benefits of commodities and the increased availability of commodity linked investment products such as index funds contribute to a financialization of agricultural commodity markets. The parallel increase in price levels and short-term volatility for almost all major...

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...

In this dissertation we present a new option pricing model - called the 2-Factor SV (stochastic volatility) model - which allows to account for time-varying risk aversion. Thereby, we are able to capture the empirical properties of pricing kernels, such as time-variation and the typical S-shape,...