This document contains material that supplements our manuscript, entitled Latent Semantic Analysis of the FOMC Statements, which is scheduled to appear in the Review of Accounting and Finance. Specifically, it provides two lengthy appendices (Appendix A and Appendix B) that are mentioned in the...

This paper offers new evidence on informed trading around merger and acquisition announcements from the UK equity and options market. The analysis suggests that in about 25–33% of events there is abnormal option trading volume during the month that precedes the announcement. Such evidence is...

Volatility implied from observed option contracts systematically varies with the contracts’ strike price and time to expiration, giving rise to an instantaneously non-flat implied volatility surface (IVS) that exhibits substantial time variation. We identify a number of latent factors that...

This research is the first to examine the empirical predictions of a real option-pricing model on market values from the realty market of a Euro area country, namely Greece. Using a manually collected sample of land and property transaction prices, we demonstrate that, a model which incorporates...

Although many economic variables of interest exhibit a tendency to revert to long-run levels, mean reverting processes are rarely used in investment and disinvestment models in the literature. Previous work by Sarkar (J Econ Dyn Control 28(2):377–396, <CitationRef CitationID="CR34">2003</CitationRef>), that focuses on irreversible entry...</citationref>

The liquidity crunch and the ensuing financial crisis have unambiguously affected all national economies and global currency exchange rates. In this article we ask whether the cross-currency correlation structure has changed since 2007. Using an extensive set of volatility surfaces implied from...