# Review of Derivatives Research

Publisher: Springer Verlag

## Description

The proliferation of derivative assets during the past two decades is unprecedented. With this growth in derivatives comes the need for financial institutions institutional investors and corporations to use sophisticated quantitative techniques to take full advantage of the spectrum of these new financial instruments. Academic research has significantly contributed to our understanding of derivative assets and markets. The growth of derivative asset markets has been accompanied by a commensurate growth in the volume of scientific research. The rapid growth of derivatives research combined with the current absence of a rigorous research journal catering to the area of derivatives and the long lead-times in the existing academic journals underlines the need for Review of Derivatives Research which provides an international forum for researchers involved in the general areas of derivative assets. The Review publishes high quality articles dealing with the pricing and hedging of derivative assets on any underlying asset (commodity interest rate currency equity real estate traded or non-traded etc.). Specific topics include but are not limited to: econometric analyses of derivative markets (efficiency anomalies performance etc.) analysis of swap markets market microstructure and volatility issues regulatory and taxation issues credit risk new areas of applications such as corporate finance (capital budgeting debt innovations) international trade (tariffs and quotas) banking and insurance (embedded options asset-liability management) risk-sharing issues and the design of optimal derivative securities risk management management and control valuation and analysis of the options embedded in capital projects valuation and hedging of exotic options new areas for further development (i.e. natural resources environmental economics. The Review has a double-blind refereeing process. In contrast to the delays in the decision making and publication processes of many current journals the Review will provide authors with an initial decision within nine weeks of receipt of the manuscript and a goal of publication within six months after acceptance. Finally a section of the journal is available for rapid publication on 'hot' issues in the market small technical pieces and timely essays related to pending legislation and policy.

• Impact factor
0.09
• 5-year impact
0.00
• Cited half-life
9.90
• Immediacy index
0.00
• Eigenfactor
0.00
• Article influence
0.00
• Website
Review of Derivatives Research website
• Other titles
Review of derivatives research (Online)
• ISSN
1380-6645
• OCLC
41977963
• Material type
Document, Periodical, Internet resource
• Document type
Internet Resource, Computer File, Journal / Magazine / Newspaper

## Publisher details

• Pre-print
• Author can archive a pre-print version
• Post-print
• Author can archive a post-print version
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• Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used
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• Articles in some journals can be made Open Access on payment of additional charge
• Classification
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## Publications in this journal

• ##### Article: American Bond Option Pricing in One-Factor Dynamic Term Structure Models
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ABSTRACT: Arbitrage-free pricing of American options on bonds in one-factor dynamic term structure models is investigated. We re-derive a general decomposition result which states that the American bond option premium can be split into the value of an otherwise equivalent European option and an early exercise premium. This extends earlier work on American equity options by e.g. Kim (1990), Jamshidian (1992) and Carr, Jarrow, and Myneni (1992) and parallels recent work by Jamshidian (1991, 1992, 1993) and Chesney, Elliott, and Gibson (1993). We examine a Gaussian class of special cases in some detail and provide a variety of numerical valuation results.
Review of Derivatives Research 12/2012;
• ##### Article: Capital Adequacy Rules, Catastrophic Firm Failure, and Systemic Risk
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ABSTRACT: This paper studies capital adequacy rules based on Value-at-Risk (VaR), leverage ratios, and stress testing. VaR is the basis of Basel II, and all three approaches are proposed in Basel III. This paper makes three contributions to the literature. First, we prove that these three rules provide an incentive to increase the probability of catastrophic financial institution failure. Collectively, these rules provide an incentive to increase (not decrease) systemic risk. Second, we argue that an unintended consequence of the Basel II VaR capital adequacy rules was the 2007 credit crisis. Third, we argue that to reduce systemic risk, a new capital adequacy rule is needed. One that is based on a risk measure related to the conditional expected loss given insolvency.
Review of Derivatives Research 06/2012;
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##### Article: New solvable stochastic volatility models for pricing volatility derivatives
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ABSTRACT: Classical solvable stochastic volatility models (SVM) use a CEV process for instantaneous variance where the CEV parameter $\gamma$ takes just few values: 0 - the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, 1/2 - the Heston (or square root) process, 1- GARCH, and 3/2 - the 3/2 model. Some other models were discovered in \cite{Labordere2009} by making connection between stochastic volatility and solvable diffusion processes in quantum mechanics. In particular, he used to build a bridge between solvable (super)potentials (the Natanzon (super)potentials, which allow reduction of a Schr\"{o}dinger equation to a Gauss confluent hypergeometric equation) and existing SVM. In this paper we discuss another approach to extend the class of solvable SVM in terms of hypergeometric functions. Thus obtained new models could be useful for pricing volatility derivatives (variance and volatility swaps, moment swaps).
Review of Derivatives Research 05/2012;
• ##### Article: The Evaluation of European Compound Option Prices Under Stochastic Volatility Using Fourier Transform Techniques
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ABSTRACT: Compound options are not only sensitive to future movements of the underlying asset price, but also to future changes in volatility levels. Because the Black-Scholes analytical valuation formula for compound options is not able to incorporate the sensitivity to volatility, the aim of this paper is to develop a numerical pricing procedure for this type of option in stochastic volatility models, specifically focusing on the model of Heston.For this, the compound option value is represented as the difference of its exercise probabilities, which depend on three random variables through a complex functional form. Then the joint distribution of these random variables is uniquely determined by their characteristic function and therefore the probabilities can each be expressed as a multiple inverse Fourier transform. Solving the inverse Fourier transform with respect to volatility, we can reduce the pricing problem from three to two dimensions. This reduced dimensionality simplifes the application of the fast Fourier transform method developed by Dempster and Hong when transfered to our stochastic volatility framework. After combining their approach with a new extension of the fractional fast Fourier transform technique for option pricing to the two-dimensional case, it is possible to obtain good approximations to the exercise probabilities. The resulting upper and lower bounds are then compared with other numerical methods such as Monte Carlo simulations and show promising results.
Review of Derivatives Research 10/2011;
• ##### Article: Parametric Modeling of Implied Smile Functions: A Generalized SVI Model
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ABSTRACT: In this paper, we propose a parametric model of implied variance which is a natural generalization of the SVI model. The model improves the SVI by allowing more flexibly the negative curvature in the tails which is justified both theoretically and empirically. The fitting of the model, comparing with the other competing parametric models (SVI, SABR), to the implied volatility smile and the risk neutral density function is tested on SPX options.
Review of Derivatives Research 08/2011; 16(1).
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##### Article: Pricing Average Options Under Time-Changed Levy Processes
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ABSTRACT: This paper presents an approximate formula for pricing average options when the underlying asset price is driven by time-changed Levy processes. Time-changed Levy processes are attractive to use for a driving factor of underlying prices because the processes provide a flexible framework for generating jumps, capturing stochastic volatility as the random time change, and introducing the leverage effect. There have been very few studies dealing with pricing problems of exotic derivatives on time-changed Levy processes in contrast to standard European derivatives. Our pricing formula is based on the Gram-Charlier expansion and the key of the formula is to find analytic treatments for computing the moments of the normalized average asset price. In numerical examples, we demonstrate that our formula give accurate values of average call options when adopting Heston's stochastic volatility model, VG-CIR, and NIG-CIR models.
Review of Derivatives Research 07/2011;
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##### Article: The value of tradeability
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ABSTRACT: This paper determines the value of asset tradeability in an option pricing framework. In our model, tradeability is valuable since it allows investors to exploit temporary mis-pricings of stocks. The model delivers several novel insights on the value of tradeability: The value of tradeability is the larger, the higher the pricing efficiency of the market is. Uncertainty increases the value of tradeablity, no matter whether the uncertainty results from noise trading or from new information about the fundamental value of the stock. The value of tradeability is the larger, the longer the illiquid stock cannot be traded and the more trading dates the liquid stock offers.
Review of Derivatives Research 07/2011;
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##### Article: Corporate governance and hedge fund activism
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ABSTRACT: Recently, the mainstream media have paid considerable attention to hedge funds behaving as agents of corporate change. We study this phenomenon using a unique dataset of hedge fund activism for the period 1994–2005, and find evidence that hedge fund activists improve both short-term stock performance and long-term operating performance of their targets. The most dramatic changes in performance accrue to targets where activists seek corporate governance changes and reductions in excess cash. Additionally, hedge funds themselves benefit from activism: the risk-adjusted annual performance of hedge funds seeking changes in corporate governance is about 7–11% higher than for non-activist hedge funds and hedge funds pursuing less aggressive activism. These results imply that hedge funds can facilitate long-lasting changes in corporate governance, cash flows, and operating performance that benefit target firm shareholders and hedge fund investors alike. KeywordsHedge funds–Activism–Corporate governance
Review of Derivatives Research 06/2010; 14(2):169-204.
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##### Article: Manager fee contracts and managerial incentives
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ABSTRACT: Under the principal-agent framework, we study and compare different compensation schemes commonly adopted by hedge fund and mutual fund managers. We find that the option-like performance fee structure prevalent among hedge funds is suboptimal to the symmetric performance fee structure. However, the use of high water mark (HWM) mitigates the suboptimality, though to a very limited extent. Both our theoretical models and simulation results show that HWM will induce more managerial efforts only when a fund is slightly under the water but it will unfavorably dampen incentives when a fund is too deep under the water and when the manager’s skill is poor. Allowing managers to invest personal wealth in their own funds, however, helps align interests and provides positive managerial incentives. KeywordsHedge fund–Principal-agent problem–High water mark–Fee contract
Review of Derivatives Research 03/2010; 14(2):205-239.
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##### Article: The smirk in the S&P500 futures options prices: a linearized factor analysis
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ABSTRACT: In the S&P500 futures options, we identify three factors, corresponding to movements in the underlying, parallel movements, and tilting of the cross section of implied volatilities (the “smirk factor”). We relate these factors non-linearly to movements in the option prices. They seem to be diffusive in nature, have significant associated risk premia, and can account for an overwhelming part of the option price movements. We interpret the options smirk, which is the notion that out-of-the-money (OTM) puts seem expensive relative to OTM calls, in terms of the prices of these risk factors. Going short OTM puts and long OTM calls, corresponding to the third factor, makes a profit on average, but this corresponds to its risk premium, and does not represent a market inefficiency. Our smirk factor is useful for hedging option portfolios, but seems unrelated to movements in the underlying, and does not fit into the framework of the jump-diffusion models.
Review of Derivatives Research 02/2009; 12(2):109-139.
• ##### Article: The cross-section of average delta-hedge option returns under stochastic volatility
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ABSTRACT: Existing evidence indicates that average returns of purchased market-hedge S&P 500 index calls, puts, and straddles are non-zero but large and negative, which implies that options are expensive. This result is intuitively explained by means of volatility risk and a negative volatility risk premium, but there is a recent surge of empirical and analytical studies which also attempt to find the sources of this premium. An important question in the line of a priced volatility explanation is if a standard stochastic volatility model can also explain the cross-sectional findings of these empirical studies. The answer is fairly positive. The volatility elasticity of calls and puts is several times the level of market volatility, depending on moneyness and maturity, and implies a rich cross-section of negative average option returns—even if volatility risk is not priced heavily, albeit negative. We introduce and calibrate a new measure of option overprice to explain these results. This measure is robust to jump risk if jumps are not priced.
Review of Derivatives Research 01/2009; 11(3):205-244.

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