We estimate post-jump volatility-decay risk premia as the predictable ‎difference between periods of high and low diffusive volatility. By ‎constructing straddle portfolios after positive and negative jumps occur, we ‎show that the gains that these hedged options' portfolios yield...

We document significant intra-year and less significant intra-week seasonality in outliers of Samp;P500 daily returns. Controlling for outliers in dummy regressions reveals that 1) Monday's mean returns turn from insignificantly to significantly positive and insignificantly higher than all...

This study proposes a more robust estimation of the implied volatility in the FX market, offers a possible explanation to the observed quot;smilequot; in implied volatilities based on a quot;clientele effectquot;, and tests the predictability of future volatilities in the FX market. We employ...

Over the last fifty years, increasingly sophisticated risk measurement and management techniques have revolutionized the field of finance. More recently, the globalization of financial markets and policy changes in the regulation of financial institutions have impacted upon how commercial banks...

Day-of-the-week tests for the entire distribution (rather then specific moments) are employed on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange index using non-parametric tests. We further add to prior art by examining whether Sunday's return distribution is significantly different from the distribution of any and...