Purpose: This paper aims to test three parametric models in pricing and hedging higher-order moment swaps. Using vanilla option prices from the volatility surface of the Euro Stoxx 50 Index, the paper shows that the pricing accuracy of these models is very satisfactory under four different...

Black (1976) model assumes a lognormal distribution for futures prices, and has been shown to misprice deep in-the-money and deep out-of-the-money futures options. in this paper, the jump-diffusion stochastic interest rates model developed by Doffou and Hilliard (1999a) is fitted to currency...

This chapter investigates empirically the existence of periodically collapsing bubbles in the Asian emerging stock markets using the Enders–Siklos (2001) momentum threshold autoregressive model. As explained in Bohl (2003), this non-linear time series technique can be used to analyze bubble...