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Garleanu, Nicolae Bogdan; Pedersen, Lasse Heje; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We model the demand-pressure effect on prices when options cannot be perfectly hedged. The model shows that demand pressure in one option contract increases its price by an amount proportional to the variance of the unhedgeable part of the option. Similarly, the demand pressure increases the...

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Limits to Arbitrage and Hedging: Evidence from Commodity Markets

Acharya, Viral V; Lochstoer, Lars; Ramadorai, Tarun - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

futures contracts. Their hedging demand is met by financial intermediaries who act as speculators, but are constrained in risk …-taking. Increases (decreases) in producers’ hedging demand (the risk-bearing capacity of speculators) increase the costs of hedging … 1980-2006, we show that producers’ hedging demand - proxied by their default risk - forecasts spot prices, futures prices …

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Corporate Bond Valuation and Hedging with Stochastic Interest Rates and Endogenous Bankruptcy

Acharya, Viral V; Carpenter, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

stochastic. It then uses the results to explain the dynamics of hedging. Bankruptcy rules are important determinants of corporate … produce the same prices, they can have very different hedging implications. We show that empirical results on the relation …

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Incomplete-Market Equilibria Solved Recursively on an Event Tree

Dumas, Bernard J; Lyasoff, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We develop a method that allows one to compute incomplete-market equilibria routinely for Markovian equilibria (when they exist). The main difficulty to be overcome arises from the set of state variables. There are, of course, exogenous state variables driving the economy but, in an incomplete...

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Pricing Risk in Economies with Heterogenous Agents and Incomplete Markets

Pijoan-Mas, Josep - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Habit formation has been proposed as a possible solution to the equity premium puzzle. This paper extends the class of models that support the habits explanation in order to account for heterogeneity in earnings, wealth, habits and consumption. I find that habit formation does indeed increase...

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Too-Systemic-To-Fail: What Option Markets Imply About Sector-wide Government Guarantees

Kelly, Bryan; Lustig, Hanno; van Nieuwerburgh, Stijn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We examine the pricing of financial crash insurance during the 2007-2009 financial crisis in U.S. option markets. A large amount of aggregate tail risk is missing from the price of financial sector crash insurance during the financial crisis. The difference in costs of out-of-the-money put...

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Carry

Koijen, Ralph; Moskowitz, Tobias J; Pedersen, Lasse Heje; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Any security’s expected return can be decomposed into its “carry” and its expected price appreciation, where carry is a model-free characteristic that can be observed in advance. While carry has been studied almost exclusively for currencies, we find that carry predicts returns both in the...

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Volatility Risk Premia and Exchange Rate Predictability

Della Corte, Pasquale; Ramadorai, Tarun; Sarno, Lucio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We investigate the predictive information content in foreign exchange volatility risk premia for exchange rate returns. The volatility risk premium is the difference between realized volatility and a model-free measure of expected volatility that is derived from currency options, and reflects...

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Option-Based Credit Spreads

Culp, Christopher L.; Nozawa, Yoshio; Veronesi, Pietro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Theoretically, corporate debt is economically equivalent to safe debt minus a put option on the firm’s assets. We empirically show that indeed portfolios of long Treasuries and short traded put options ("pseudo bonds") closely match the properties of traded corporate bonds. Pseudo bonds...

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Understanding Index Option Returns

Broadie, Mark; Chernov, Mikhail; Johannes, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper studies the returns from investing in index options. Previous research documents significant average option returns, large CAPM alphas, and high Sharpe ratios, and concludes that put options are mispriced. We propose an alternative approach to evaluate the significance of option...

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