Using forward-looking information in the options market, we introduce a new method for better identifying systematic market risk as a predictor for the cross-section of stock returns. Empirical results show that there is a significantly positive relation between our option-implied beta and...

We utilize the respective information share and common factor component weight approaches of Hasbrouck (1995) and Gonzalo and Granger (1995) to examine price discovery competition between the VIX and VIX futures. Our results show that VIX futures prices play a dominant role in the overall...

In this paper we propose a Gaussian quadrature method to study American and exotic option pricing under the jump-diffusion model of Merton (1976). Our numerical experiments show that the Gaussian quadrature method, compared to several existing methods in the literature, including the fast Gauss...

This paper investigates the effect of monetary policies, mainly proxied by interest rate changes, on the relationship between advertising and subsequent net cash flows for Taiwan's mutual fund industry. Based on a comprehensive mutual fund dataset and allowing for a precise estimation of fund...

We utilize a novel data panel of institutional short-sell transactions (with identification flags for hedgers and non-hedgers), equity covered put warrant data, and securities lending data based on the Taiwan market to show that put warrant derivatives hedge re-balancing raises borrowing costs...