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Improving Implied Volatility Forecasts for American Options Using Neural Networks
Journal of Futures Markets, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the application of neural networks to improve pricing of American options. Focusing on both American and European options on the S&P 100 index from January 2016 to August 2023, we integrate neural networks to model the difference between market‐implied and model‐implied volatilities derived from the Black‐Scholes and Heston
Haitong Jiang, Emese Lazar, Miriam Marra
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Time Integrals Under the Black–Scholes–Merton and Margrabe Economies
Journal of Futures Markets, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The problem of integrating the Black, Scholes, and Merton (BSM) formula with respect to the time variable is paramount for an economist. Inspired by the real options literature, Shackleton and Wojakowski offer analytic formulae for valuing finite maturity (profit) caps and floors that are contingent on continuous flows following a lognormal ...
José Carlos Dias +3 more
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Equity Issuance and Divident Policy under Commitment [PDF]
This paper studies a model of corporate finance in which firms use stock issuance to finance investment. Since the firm recognizes the relationship between future dividends and stock prices, future variables enter in the constraints and optimal policy is
Albert Marcet +2 more
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Further Findings on the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption
Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using 43,817 parent–child pairs from 23 waves of the HILDA Survey, I study the intergenerational transmission of alcohol use within a rational model of trait transmission. Transmission is predominantly same‐sex: the mother–daughter elasticity is 0.10 and the father–son elasticity is 0.09; there is no father–daughter effect.
Sergey Alexeev
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Explaining Dividend Policies in Argentina [PDF]
Dividend policy is central to the performance and valuation of listed companies, but the issue still remains scarcely investigated in emerging countries.
Ricardo N. Bebczuk
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Inconsistency of the Capital Asset Pricing Model in a Multi‐Currency Environment
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is a widely adopted model in asset pricing theory and portfolio construction because of its intuitive nature. One of its main conclusions is that there exists a global market portfolio that each rational investor should hold in proportion to the risk‐free asset. In this paper, we demonstrate theoretically
Khalifa Al‐Thani +4 more
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Brexit and Its Impact on EU Financial Markets
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the impact of Brexit on volatility spillovers across the EU countries. We introduce a Brexit intensity measure that assigns an intensity score reflective of the financial markets' reaction to the events that occurred as Brexit negotiations began to unfold.
Marwan Izzeldin +3 more
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Bank Income Smoothing, Societal Patriarchy and Policy Uncertainty
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a sample of 745 banks from 26 OECD countries over the period 1997–2023, we investigate the moderating effects of societal patriarchy on bank income smoothing (IS), amidst policy uncertainty (PU). Results indicate that in periods of high PU, banks operating in highly patriarchal societies tend to curtail the use of loan loss provisions ...
Tanveer Ahsan +4 more
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Soft Power in Trade: Quantifying the Impact of Confucius Institutes on China's Exports
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the role of Confucius Institutes (CIs) as a form of China's cultural diplomacy and their impact on international trade, particularly exports. Using a gravity model, we analyze data from 1990 to 2019 across countries, finding that the presence of CIs significantly boosts China's exports.
Renjing Chen, Wei Jin, Tangrui Yang
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Dividend Taxation, Share Repurchases and the Equity Trap [PDF]
This paper reconsiders the effects of dividend taxation. Particular attention is paid to the form of the “equity trap”, that is, the extent to which cash paid to the shareholders must be taxed as dividends. Our analysis shows that Sinn’s (1991) criticism
Jan Södersten, Tobias Lindhe
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