American call and put options on the S&P 500 index futures that violate the stochastic dominance bounds of Constantinides and Perrakis (2007) over 1983-2006 are identified as potentially profitable investment opportunities. Call bid prices more frequently violate their upper bound than put bid...

The optimal portfolio of a utility-maximizing investor trading in the S&P 500 index and cash, subject to proportional transaction costs, becomes stochastically dominated when overlaid with a zero-net-cost portfolio of S&P 500 options bought at their ask and written at their bid price in most...

We derive the boundaries of the region of no transaction when the risky asset follows a mixed jump-diffusion process in the presence of proportional transaction costs. These boundaries are shown to differ from their diffusion counterparts in relation to the jump intensity for lognormally...

We examine the stochastic dominance bounds for call options in the presence of proportional transaction costs, developed in a discrete time and for a discrete or continuous state model of the returns of the underlying asset by Constantinides and Perrakis (CP, 2002, 2007). We consider a lognormal...

This paper examines the stochastic dominance efficiency in the presence of transaction costs for Samp;P 500 index futures call and put options by estimating bounds on reservation write and reservation purchase prices and then verifying whether the observed option prices satisfy them. The bounds...

American options on the Samp;P 500 index futures that violate the stochastic dominance bounds of Constantinides and Perrakis (2007) from 1983 to 2006 are identified as potentially profitable trades. Call bid prices more frequently violate their upper bound than put bid prices do, while...

American options on the S&P 500 index futures that violate the stochastic dominance bounds of Constantinides and Perrakis (2007) from 1983 to 2006 are identified as potentially profitable trades. Call bid prices more frequently violate their upper bound than put bid prices do, while violations...

We examine empirical “puzzles” documented in several high profile studies of the market for S&P 500 index options, such as the overpricing of out-of-the money (OTM) put options and at-the-money (ATM) straddles. We find that without any exception the theoretical bases of these studies have...

American call and put options on the S&P 500 index futures that violate the stochastic dominance bounds of Constantinides and Perrakis (2007) over 1983-2006 are identified as potentially profitable investment opportunities. Call bid prices more frequently violate their upper bound than put bid...