A model-free methodology is for the first time used in this paper to estimate a daily volatility index (VIBEX-NEW) for the Spanish financial market. We show that daily changes in VIBEX-NEW display a negative, tight contemporaneous relationship with IBEX daily returns, contrary to other common...

The Credit Default Swap (CDS) market is still fairly young. As a result, there are some areas that have not yet been fully investigated. One of those areas is the behavior of the Cheapest to Deliver Option (CTD) embedded within the CDS contract. Fluctuations in the CTD translate into changes in...

The Credit Default Swap (CDS) market is still fairly young. As a result, there are some areas that have not yet been fully investigated. One of those areas is the behavior of the Cheapest to Deliver Option (CTD) embedded within the CDS contract. Fluctuations in the CTD translate into changes in...

We investigate statistical arbitrage strategies for index options. To test the efficiency of markets in pricing relative implied volatilities in highly correlated markets, U.S. stock indices for which listed options are available are matched into pairs according to their degree of correlation....

We investigate the pricing performance of three convertible bond pricing models on the French convertible bond market using daily market prices. We examine a component model separating the convertible bond into a bond and option component, a method based on the Margrabe model for pricing...

We use a multivariate generalized autoregressive heteroskedasticity model (M-GARCH) to examine three stock indexes and their associated futures prices: the New York Stock Exchange Composite, Standard and Poor's 500, and Toronto 35. The North American context is significant because markets in...

Non-agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) are typically priced and traded on discounted cashflow basis where a cashflow projection is made under a prepayment and default scenario and discounted with a discount margin (DM) that supposedly measures credit risk. Whilest simple and intuitive to...

This paper examines the behaviour of foreign exchange reserves, when a government defends an exchange rate target zone using Minimal Marginal Intervention. Reserve depletion defending a single exchange rate barrier is first modelled as the maximum or minimum value of the path of an unregulated...

This paper provides a short introduction to the topic of target zone exchange rate option pricing. Models covered include: Black-Scholes equation with derivation, European Call on a stock option, Garman-Kohlhagen model for an option on a free-floating exchange rate, Dumas Jennergren and Naslund...

We investigate the information content of the call (put) Early Exercise Premium, or EEP, defined as the normalized difference in prices between otherwise comparable American and European call (put) options. The call EEP specifically captures investors' expectations about future lump sum dividend...