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trading around quarterly earnings announcements is either directionally motivated and/or volatility motivated. We found … volatility-motivated option trading, and our results suggest that this type of option trading could be motivated by hedging …
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In this paper, we examined the changes in volatility overflow among the exchange rate of the Japanese yen (JPY), the … and transportation equipment indices). The findings highlighted causality in variance (volatility spillover) among the … variables. We revealed that volatility could also spread indirectly among the variables (from one variable to another through a …
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This study measured the individual and conjoint effects of Argentina's primaries and first- and second-voting presidential election results, as well as their post-election comparative effects, on the stock market performance of its most relevant economic sectors. Within four different estimation...
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Informed traders may prefer the options market to the stock market for reasons including the leverage effect, transaction costs, restrictions on short sale. Many studies try to predict future returns of stocks using informed traders' behavior in the options market. In this study, we examine...
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This study suggests a new measure for a firm's operating cost flexibility. Flexible firms are less risky and, therefore, require lower stock returns. This analysis of 126,202 firm-year observations from the U.S. cross-section of stock returns finds that the new measure explains a negative...
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Using the next-day and next-week returns of stocks in the Korean market, we examine the association of option volume ratios - i.e. the option-to-stock (O/S) ratio, which is the total volume of put options and call options scaled by total underlying equity volume, and the put-call (P/C) ratio,...
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Purpose: In this paper we try to explain US stock market variations and cash flow fundamentals by employing three different book-valued based ratios, First, we explore the explanatory capacity of the simple book-market ratio on time-varying expected returns, and procced on altering its...
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volatility of Thailand and Indian Stock Market. It also analysed whether both countries were reacting similarly to the pandemic … models were used to assess the volatility of both markets. The study revealed that the negative shocks had greateraimpact on …
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influence of different investor types' net options demand on the KOSPI200 options-implied volatility dynamics. We extend Bollen … impacts of net buying pressure on implied volatility, and the effect of regulatory reform in the options market. Our empirical … institutions' net demand is the most informative about the underlying market volatility independent of the market reform, while …
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) index call and put options with different volatility forecasting approaches. Since the volatility is the key parameter in … pricing options, GARCH (Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity), implied volatility, historical volatility …, and implied volatility index (VBI) are used to determine the best volatility approach for pricing options according to …
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