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This paper aims at measuring the loss in the value of a firm due to the gamble for resurrection, in a standard contingent claims model. Just before a debt repayment is due, the equityholders of a levered firm can decide to shut the firm down or to keep it as an ongoing concern. We study how...
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The aim of this paper is to compare various methods which extract a Risk Neutral Density (RND) out of PIBOR as well as of Notional interest rate futures options and to investigate how traders react to a political event. We first focus on 5 dates surrounding the 1997 snap election and several...
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This paper suggests a general approach to testing dynamic models by approximating the true asset pricing kernel …
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We consider a complete financial market with primitive assets and derivatives on these primitive assets. Nevertheless, the derivative assets are non-redundant in the market, in the sense that the market is complete, only with their existence. In such a framework, we derive an equilibrium...
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feature is more pronounced when the market is more volatile, and delivers better pricing as well as hedging performance under …
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We consider a complete financial market with primitive assets and derivatives on these primitive assets. Nevertheless, the derivative assets are non-redundant in the market, in the sense that the market is complete, only with their existence. In such a framework, we derive an equilibrium...
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In rational, efficiently functioning and complete markets, returns on derivative and underlying securities should be perfectly contemporaneously correlated.Due to market imperfections, one of these markets may reflect information faster.The use of high-frequency data and the choice for a small...
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-discounting, in terms of credit and liquidity effects. We also review the new modern pricing approach prevailing among practitioners … report the classical and modern no-arbitrage pricing formulas for plain vanilla interest rate derivatives, and the multiple … recent market data comparing pre- and post-credit crunch pricing methodologies and showing the transition of the market …
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The valuation theory for American Contingent Claims, due to Bensoussan (1984) and Karatzas (1988), is extended to deal with constraints on portfolio choice, including incomplete markets and borrowing/short-selling constraints, or with different interest rates for borrowing and lending. In the...
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We develop a simulation algorithm for estimating the prices of American-style securities, i.e. securities with opportunities for early exercice. Our algorithm provides both point estimates and error bounds for true security price.
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