This article presents lower and upper bounds on the prices of basket options for a general class of continuous-time financial models. The techniques we propose are applicable whenever the joint characteristic function of the vector of log-returns is known in closed-form. Moreover, the basket...

This paper presents a joint analysis of the term structure of credit default swap (CDS) spreads and the implied volatility surface for European countries during 2007-2012, a sample period covering both the Global Financial Crisis and the European debt crisis. We analyze to which extent...

We analyze the VIX futures market with a focus on the exchange-traded noteswritten on such contracts, in particular we investigate the VXX notes tracking theshort-end part of the futures term structure. Inspired by recent developments incommodity smile modelling, we present a multi-factor...