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This paper empirically examines whether asset’s liquidity can help resolve the known strike-price biases of the Black-Scholes model for different liquidity measures based on trading volume, bid-ask spread and the Amihud’s ILLIQ. Our results indicate that, when the underlying asset...
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There is agreement regarding the fundamental role of transaction costs in determining currency options market …
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-term currency options. …
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This paper derives a pricing model for payment deferred vulnerable options and applies the results to the pricing of … vulnerable range accrual notes. The valuation model for vulnerable options takes into account the possibility of the option … payment deferred vulnerable options, is also performed. Due to the product design, the pricing model for vulnerable range …
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In the current environment of financial distress, many governments are likely to soon become major holders of financial assets, but the policy debate focuses only on the likelihood and extent of short-term market stabilization. This paper shows that government intervention and propping up are...
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This paper introduces the autocorrelation effect of assets’ returns into the valuation model of reset options. The MA …(q) process, which is an extension of MA(1) process noted by Liao and Chen (2006), is applied to the valuation of reset options in … reset options. This paper demonstrates that positive autocorrelation characteristics lessens the delta jump and gamma jump …
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This article proposes a multi-factor approach to incorporate issuer default risk into basket credit linked note (BCLN) pricing based on the Gaussian copula. The numerical analysis demonstrates that the issuer default risk increases the fair coupon rate. Contradicting the common belief that a...
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This paper compares net profits from delta hedging through the Delta of a European call option, by assuming underlying stock prices follows a geometric Brownian motion (GBM) or a Variance-Gamma (VG) process. We employ the maximum likelihood estimation method to estimate corresponding parameters...
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volatility models with Black-Scholes-Merton (BSM) deltas, and in particular with the `implied BSM’ model in which an option’s … delta is based on its own market implied volatility. Various empirical studies of vanilla options on different equity … depend on the market regime. Using 16.5-years of daily closing prices for FTSE 100 vanilla options, out-of-sample tests of …
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An analogy based call option pricing model is put forward. The model provides a new explanation for the implied volatility skew puzzle. The analogy model is consistent with empirical findings about returns from well studied option strategies such as covered call writing and zero-beta straddles....
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