In this paper, we employ a combination of the jump diffusion and GARCH model in the mean equation to test the risk-return relationship in the U.S. stock returns. The results suggest a statistically significant relationship between the risk and the return if the risk measure includes components...

This paper proposes a profit model for spread trading by focusing on the stochastic movement of the price spread and its first hitting time probability density. The model is general in that it can be used for any financial instrument. The advantage of the model is that the profit from the trades...

In this paper, we construct the new class of tempered infinitely divisible (TID) distributions. Taking into account the tempered stable distribution class, as introduced by in the seminal work of Rosinsky , a modification of the tempering function allows one to obtain suitable properties. In...