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F. Chabi-Yo, E. Gourier, and H. Langlois: Option-Implied Risk Premia with Intertemporal Hedging
The equity and variance risk premia at a horizon T 1 depend on the risk of changes in the future economic environment beyond T 1. We derive novel estimates of these risk premia that account for intertemporal risk hedging and ... Read More
I. Halperin & A. Itkin: Marketron through the Looking Glass: From Equity Dynamics to Option Pricing in Incomplete Markets
The Marketron model, introduced by [Halperin, Itkin, 2025], describes price formation in inelastic markets as the nonlinear diffusion of a quasiparticle (the marketron) in a multidimensional space comprising the log-price x, a memory variable y encoding past money flows, and ... Read More
P. Glasserman, M. Li and D.Pirjol: Trading TP 2 Option Violations
Call option prices in the Black-Scholes model are totally positive of order 2 (TP 2), meaning that the ratio of the price of a higher-strike call to a lower-strike call increases with time-to-expiry, with adjustments for dividends and interest. This ... Read More
J. Zhuang & W. Lu: Sabr-Informed Multitask Gaussian Process: A Synthetic-to-Real Framework for Implied Volatility Surface Construction
Constructing the Implied Volatility Surface (IVS) is a challenging task in quantitative finance due to the complexity of real markets and the sparsity of market data. Structural models like Stochastic Alpha Beta Rho (SABR) model offer interpretability and theoretical consistency ... Read More
R. Shah: American Option Pricing Under Time-Varying Rough Volatility: A Signature-Based Hybrid Framework
We introduce a modular framework that extends the signature method to handle American option pricing under evolving volatility roughness. Building on the signature pricing framework of Bayer et al. (2025), we add three practical innovations. First, we train a gradient-boosted ... Read More
T. Bali, A. Goyal, M. Moerke & F. Weigert: In Search of Seasonality in Intraday and Overnight Option Returns
We uncover momentum and reversal patterns in half-day option returns that persist for up to at least 20 business days, with economic magnitudes of 0.22% to 0.45% per half-day. Specifically, returns show strong momentum within the same period (e.g., intraday-to-intraday) ... Read More
Highlighted Research
Reducing Risk through Multifactors: Implied Variance Asymmetry and Implied Beta
By G. DeSimone & O. Shih
February 15, 2024
OptionMetrics' latest study challenges conventional risk assessment using metrics like implied variance asymmetry (IVA), calculated as the measure of downside variance relative to upside variance, and option-implied beta strategies.