AbstractThis study examines if informed trading is present in the index option market by analyzing the KOSPI 200 options, the most actively traded derivative product in the world. The spread decomposition model developed by Madhavan, Richardson, and Roomans (1997) is utilized and the adverse‐selection cost component of the spread estimated by the model is then used...... hiện toàn bộ
This paper examines whether structural breaks contain incremental information for forecasting the volatility of copper futures. Considering structural breaks in volatility, we develop four heterogeneous autoregressive (HAR) models based on classical or latest HAR‐type models. Subsequently, we apply these models to forecast volatility in the copper futures market. Th...... hiện toàn bộ
AbstractThis study investigates the relative performance of various historical volatility estimators that incorporate daily trading range: M. Parkinson (1980), M. Garman and M. Klass (1980), L. C. G. Rogers and S. E. Satchell (1991), and D. Yang and Q. Zhang (2000). It is found that the range estimators all perform very well when an asset price follows a continuous...... hiện toàn bộ
Hany A. Shawky, Achla Marathe, Christopher L. Barrett
AbstractIn this article we investigate the statistical properties of wholesale electricity spot and futures prices
traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange for delivery at the California–Oregon Border. Using daily data
for the years 1998 and 1999, we find that many of the characteristics of the electricity market can be viewed to
be broadly consistent with effici...... hiện toàn bộ
AbstractIn the framework of encompassing regressions, the information content of the jump/continuous components of historical volatility is assessed when implied volatility is included as an additional regressor. The authors' empirical application focuses on daily and intradaily data for the S&P100 and S&P500 indexes, and daily data for the associated VXO a...... hiện toàn bộ
AbstractThis paper focuses on the increasing competition between exchanges for listing similar index futures contracts
and the impact this has on information dissemination between various markets. Specifically, using both the
Hasbrouck and Gonzalo–Granger methodologies for extracting the information content held in each market, a
comparison of information efficienc...... hiện toàn bộ