In recent years financial engineers have created instruments that facilitate the efficient transfer of the risk associated with certain forms of entertainment revenues. This paper focuses on one particular instrument, options on streams of movie revenues. These options enable film distributors...

We develop a straightforward procedure to price derivatives by a bivariate tree when the underlying process is a jump-diffusion. Probabilities and jump sizes are derived by matching higher order moments or cumulants. Comparisons with other published results are given along with convergence...

We investigate quot;Jump Memoryquot; using an extensive data base of short-term Samp;P 500 Index options. Jump memory refers to the attenuation of the jump intensity and magnitude parameters following a jump event. Behavioral and rational explanations for this phenomenon are posited. The pricing...

The methodology for determining the statistical significance of the impact of a certain event (stock split, corporate restructuring, change in regulation, etc.) on the unsystematic volatility of asset returns is developed. The measures of such an impact and corresponding test statistics are...

Econometricians often emphasize that the use of a larger information set results in better parameter estimates and stronger hypotheses tests. The use of information on the stochastic behavior of the volatility of asset returns results in the formulation of more powerful parametric tests of the...

Because the publication of quot;Advances in Futures and Options Researchquot; has been discontinued, a revised version of this paper was published in the Journal of Risk. This paper examines the ability of the jump-diffusion models to explain systematic deviations in implicit distributions from...