We examine whether bond ratings contain pricing relevant information, that is unavailable to investors form other …

This paper analyzes empirical market utility functions and pricing kernelsderived from the DAX and DAX option data for …

The observed prices of out-of-the money put options seem too high given standardderivative pricing models. One possible … explanation is a Peso problem: crashes (forwhich the payoff of a put is high) are taken into account for pricing, but are under … derived pricing restriction controllingfor the peso problem is violated.In this paper, we argue that the approach presented by …

We study an equilibrium asset pricing model with several Lucas (1978) trees subject toevent risk, that is, the …

applications to, e.g., multivariate option pricing with stochasticvolatilities and correlations, fixed-income models with …

-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 …