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moneyness, a result we use to infer skewness and kurtosis from volatility smiles. Evidence suggests that both kurtosis in …Prices of currency options commonly differ from the Black-Scholes formula along two dimensions: implied volatilities … vary by strike price (volatility smiles) and maturity (implied volatility of at­the­money options increases, on average …
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, with numerical examples, the and effciency of this procedure in pricing interest rate options when the underlying interest …
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This paper presents a model on contagion in nancial markets. We use a bank run framework as a mechanism to initiate a crisis and argues that liquidity crunch and imperfect information are the key culprits for a crisis to be contagious. The model proposes that a crisis is more likely to be...
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