This paper investigates the effect of overnight trading halts on option prices. We model overnight returns by a pure jump process. Intraday returns follow the literature's standard models by allowing for stochastic volatility and a random jump component. We find that neither the intraday random...

This paper investigates the effect of closed overnight exchanges on option prices. During the trading day, asset prices follow the literature's standard affine model that allows for stochastic volatility and random jumps. Independently, the overnight asset price process is modeled by a single...