This technical note provides a detailed description of a simple but effective modeling solution to mark and risk manage plain-vanilla options on dividend futures. We focus on equity indices, as dividend products for single stocks are less liquid and observable and we derive a simple pricing...

In this article, we study the algorithmic calculation of present values greeks for callable exotic instruments. The speed of greeks evaluations becomes important with recent initial margin rules, including the ISDA standard model SIMM, requiring sensitivity calculations for non-cleared deals...

In this paper we develop robust and model-free upper bounds for American put option prices. Our bounds have all of those appealing features of the upper bounds for European options provided in DeMarzo et al. (2016) but cover much more popular derivatives in practice. Numerical results...

Securitization of the rainfall risk involves pooling of the rainfall contingent insurance policies to issue financial instruments in the capital markets to transfer the rainfall risk from the insurers to the investors. Low income households, especially in the developing countries like India...

The “practitioner Black-Scholes delta” for hedging options is a delta calculated from the Black-Scholes-Merton model (or one of its extensions) with the volatility parameter set equal to the implied volatility. As has been pointed out by a number of researchers, this delta does not minimize...

Behavioral theories contend that the human decision-making process tends to both incorporate anchor points and improperly weight low probability events. In this study, we find evidence that equity option market investors anchor to prices and incorporate a probability weighting function similar...

We present an efficient method for robustly pricing discretely monitored barrier and occupation time derivatives under exponential Levy models. This includes ordinary barrier options, as well as (resetting) Parisian options, delayed barrier options (also known as cumulative Parisian or Parasian...

One-factor no-arbitrage models of the short rate are important tools for valuing interest rate derivatives. Trees are often used to implement the models and fit them to the initial term structure. This paper generalizes existing tree building procedures so that a very wide range of interest rate...

We document a positive and persistent relation between retail investor attention, as measured by Google search volume, and future realized stock return volatility. The relation implies a profitable option trading strategy of purchasing high attention delta-neutral straddles and selling low...

We propose a stochastic model to develop a pricing partial integro-differential equation (PIDE) and its Fourier transform expression for floating Asian options based on the It\^o-L\'evy calculus. The stock price is driven by a class of infinite activity L\'evy processes leading to the market...