This paper extends the jump-diffusion option pricing model of Merton (1976) and the displaced diffusion option pricing model of Rubinstein (1983) to price options on stock indices. First, we provide a theory showing that the stock index value has a positive threshold or positive lower bound if...

This article presents a pure exchange economy that extends Rubinstein (1976) to show how the jump-diffusion option pricing model of Merton (1976) is altered when jumps are correlated with diffusive risks. All correlations are statistically different from zero. In equilibrium, the equity risk...

This paper investigates how violations of the assumption that jumps are identically and independently distributed (IID) affect option prices. We characterize several types of IID jumps violations including jumps with time-varying means, time-varying variances, and time-varying autocorrelations....

This paper uses a Nash bargaining framework to model the causes of the partial reform equilibrium syndrome that characterizes China's state sector. The model demonstrates the nature of the bargain between the principals (i.e., officials from China's State Asset Council) and the agents (large-SOE...

We show how specific features of the microstructure information from VPIN and DPIN can volatile the futures market and can link with the price discover and investor sentiment. We develop an investor (institutional, noise, and both) sentiment index for the Shanghai Stock Exchange 50 (SSE 50)...

This paper proposes a theoretical framework to illustrate the incentives of the exponential growth of the asset size of China's large state-owned enterprises in the past decades. We come up with the views that there are 3 types of incentives that lead to the expansion of asset size of large SOEs...

This research reveals the inherent dynamics between the amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow in the host country and its political relationships with other countries. We demonstrate in a two-stage sequential game model that there exists an inverted U-shape relationship between FDI...

This paper proposes a new theory so called bilateral rent-seeking to explain the dramatic growth of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow in China in the past several decades. We construct a Nash bargaining model to illustrate the relevance of how the reciprocal relationship between the local...