Measuring expectations in options markets: an application to the S&P500 index

Measuring Expectations in Options Markets: an Application to the S&p500 Index

ABSTRACT. Extracting market expectations has always been an important issue when making national policies and investment decisions in financial markets. In option markets, the most popular way has been to extract implied volatilities to assess the future variability of the underlying with the use of the Black & Scholes formula. In this manuscript, we propose a novel way to extract the whole tim...

Efficiency in Index Options Markets and Trading in Stock Baskets

Researchers have reported mispricing in index options markets. This study further examines the efficiency of the S&P 500 index options market by testing theoretical pricing relationships implied by no-arbitrage conditions. The effect of a traded stock basket, Standard and Poor’s Depository Receipts (SPDRs), on the link between index and options markets is also examined. Pricing efficiency withi...

Evidence on the Efficiency of Index Options Markets

volume indicates. Index options give market participants the ability to participate in anticipated market movements without having to buy or sell a large number of securities, and they permit portfolio managers to limit downside risk. Given their prominence and functions, the pricing efficiency of these markets is of great importance to academics, practitioners , and regulators. Well-functionin...

Evidence of the Efficiency of Index Options Markets

The Index of Sustainable Functionality: An Application for Measuring Sustainability

functionality, sustainability indicators, sustainable development. Abstract—The index of sustainable functionality (ISF) is an adaptive, multi-criteria technique that is used to measure sustainability; it is a concept that can be transposed to many regions throughout the world. An ISF application of the Southern Regional Organisation of Councils (SouthROC) in South East Queensland (SEQ) – the f...