Financial markets are increasingly developing innovative, ESG-related derivatives and relying upon these instruments to hedge ESG-related risks. The global derivatives markets are among the largest, most consequential financial markets in the world. Derivatives are financial contracts that...

Relying on a latent factor model with time-varying temporal dependence of systematic risk and mispricing on firm and option characteristics, we reveal economically substantial mispricing in the options market. The portfolio based on individual options alphas related to characteristics earns an...

The introduction of derivatives on Bitcoin enables investors to hedge risk exposures in cryptocurrencies. Because of volatility swings and jumps in cryptocurrency prices, the traditional variance-based approach to obtaining hedge ratios is infeasible. As a consequence, we consider two extensions...

Option-based portfolio insurance is a unique solution that combines a downside protection with guaranteed minimum upside participation. Its implementation, however, is challenging for public funds, whose investors have different entry points and uncertain holding periods. In this paper we extend...

Derivatives are set to hedge underlying-assets risks, but what firm-specific factors determine the use of derivatives are yet conclusively discovered. Using 308 manually collected annual reports from the listed companies and a logit regression model, this paper investigates the determinants...

This chapter attempts to de-mystify derivatives. It starts by explaining the types of derivatives used globally, and observes that derivatives could be deconstructed by their economic functions into two straightforward categories: option contracts and guarantees. The chapter then discusses the...

We investigate how no-arbitrage conditions from finance impact the applicability of conventional distributed-computing tools in DeFi. Many synchronization proto- cols resemble derivative structures and are therefore priceable using standard tech- niques. By applying these techniques to stylized...

All option trades must occur on exchanges, which typically offer auctions that improve prices over existing quotes. Wholesalers, that purchase orders from brokers, initiating auctions must be willing to trade at the existing best quote or better. For S&P500 stocks, auctions are 23% of options...

We study the capability of arbitrage-free neural-SDE market models to yield effective strategies for hedging options. In particular, we derive sensitivity-based and minimum-variance-based hedging strategies using these models and examine their performance when applied to various option...

In this article, we present a non-model framework for calculating exposure at default for counterparty credit risk analytically. While the proposed framework is based on the same fundamental assumption (that future transaction market values are normally distributed) as is used in the...