Black-Scholes delta does not minimize variance of hedging risk since it fails to capture the long run negative relationship between implied volatility and underlying price. Existing works have successfully seized the aforementioned long run relationship and improved the hedging performance. We...

We use proprietary futures brokerage data with intraday time stamps to analyze how embedded derivatives leverage affects trading and performance in the cross-section of investors. The effect is heterogeneous: Skilled investors benefit from leverage, while leverage has the opposite impact on the...

We use proprietary brokerage data to study trading patterns within a well-known financial market bubble: that in the Chinese warrants market. Persistently successful investors traded very actively and exhibited characteristics of de facto market makers. Unskilled investors unprofitably...

The extant literature on first passage problems of reflected hyper-exponential jump diffusion processes (RHEPs) lacks efficiently computable formulae for the Laplace transform of the joint distribution of the RHEP and its first passage time, cumulative distribution function of the overshoot,...

We examine the notion that financial products which cater to investors' behavioral biases can attain popularity and yield substantial profits for issuers. Our setting considers options with a callback feature, namely, callable bull/bear contracts (CBBCs). These contracts have high skewness when...