The replication of any European contingent claim by a static portfolio of calls and puts with strikes forming a continuum, formally proven by Carr and Madan (1998), extends to "standard dispersion" options written on the Euclidean norm of a vector of n asset performances. With the help of...

This paper analyzes the determinants of empirical credit default swap (CDS) spreads of European banks based on two different panel regression models. Previous studies primarily focus on non-financial firms. The Expected Default Frequency (EDF) is a statistically significant and economically...

The behavior of the implied volatility surface for European options was analyzed in details in [Zumbach and Fernandez, 2011] for prices computed with a new option pricing scheme based on the construction of the risk-neutral measure for realistic processes with a finite time increment. The...

This paper studies the valuation of multivariate equity options by determining the joint risk-neutral distribution of the underlying stock prices by means of copulas. In contrast to previous work which concentrates on two underlyings this study considers the general multivariate case. In...