In this paper, we develop a multiasset model of market liquidity and derive the optimal strategy for block order execution under both liquidity and volatility risk. The market liquidity flowing into and out of an order book is modeled as a mean-reverting stochastic process. Given the shape of...

This paper investigates market expectations of future equity prices using the probability distribution and the moments implied in equity option prices. We first conduct, without assuming a particular model, a nonparametric analysis of the development of market expectations in four major markets...