In this paper, we consider hedging and pricing of illiquid options on an untradable underlying asset, where an alternative instrument is used as a hedging instrument. We assume that the trade price of the hedging instrument is subject to market impacts caused by the hedger, as well as the...

Closed-form pricing formulae and option Greeks are obtained for European-type options using an orthogonal polynomial series -- complex Fourier series. We assume that risky assets are driven by exponential Lévy processes and stochastic volatility models. We provide a succinct error analysis to...

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 paper examines the performance of various hedging strategies using Options in the Indian options market. The entire spectrum of option hedging strategies are divided into two categories: 1) Strategies with limited losses and unlimited gains; 2) Strategies with limited losses and limited...

In recent years there has been a remarkable growth of multi-asset options. These options exhibit sensitivity to the volatility of the underlying assets, as well as to their correlations. The call versus call is a product commonly used to trade correlation within the inter-dealer broker markets....

In this paper, I have used simple arbitrage argument to derive a dozen of model-free option price properties. In addition to deriving the Greeks under the model-free framework, the results show that first, in contrast to the traditional view, a European call (put) option for a...

We introduce a methodology to extract the downside and upside implied volatilities from European options. Our proposed methodology is based on partitioning the total implied volatility into downside and upside portions. We extract the downside and upside volatilities for S&P 500 for the years...