A comprehensive empirical analysis of the return and conditional variance of Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) indices is performed using GARCH models. The prediction performance of these conditional changing variance models is compared to newer asymmetric GJR and APARCH models. We also quantify...

One of the more efficient methods to hedge portfolios of securities whose put options are not traded is to use stock index options. We use the mean-extended Gini (MEG) model to derive the optimal hedge ratios for stock index options. We calculate the minimum-variance hedge ratios and compare...

Yitzhaki (1996) showed that the OLS estimator of the slope coefficient in a simple regression is a weighted average of the slopes delineated by adjacent observations. The weights depend only on the distribution of the independent variable. In this paper I demonstrate that equal weights can only...