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With increasing appreciation of the fact that stock return variance is stochastic and variance risk is heavily priced, the industry has created a series of variance derivative products to span variance risk. The variance swap contract is the most actively traded of these products. It pays at...
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The challenge of international term structure models is to simultaneously account for the properties of interest rate term structures and foreign exchange rates within an arbitrage-free framework. We extend the quadratic term structure models proposed in Leippold and Wu (2002) to multiple...
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The pricing kernel, or the state-price density, which relates future cash flows to today's price, is the fundamental building block of modern asset pricing theory. In abstract, the state-price density process can be regarded as a positive supermartingale, or, under some regularity conditions, a...
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We develop a new option pricing framework that tightly integrates with how institutional investors manage options positions. The framework starts with the near-term dynamics of the implied volatility surface and derives no-arbitrage constraints on its current shape. Within this framework, we...
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The stock options implied volatility skew reflects both the structural risk characteristics of the underlying company and the short-term information flow about the stock price movement. This paper builds a semi-structural cross-sectional option pricing model to separate the structural risk...
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