References: [1] [2] [3] Aijo‚ J.‚ 2003‚ “Determinants of the Volatility Smile: A Study on the German Individual Stock Options”‚ working paper‚ University of Vaasa. Backus‚ D.‚ S. Foresi‚ K. Lai‚ and L. Wu‚ 1997‚ “Accounting for Biases in Black-Scholes”‚ mimeo‚ New York University. Bakshi‚ G.‚ N. Kapadia‚ and D. Madan
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the Volatility for Financial Engineering Dr. Zbigniew Krysiak zbigniew.krysiak@poczta.onet.pl Associate Professor of Finance - Warsaw School of Economics Visiting Professor at Northeastern Illinois University‚ Chicago Financial Mathematics Mathematics Department at Northeastern Illinois University‚ Chicago Wednesday‚ October 3rd‚ 2012 1 Agenda • Approaches to Modeling Volatilities • Volatility Models in Capital Allocation - VaR • Application of GARCH to Modeling Volatility • Volatility
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out with a new business idea. The idea was to create an investment group‚ Arundel Partners‚ to purchase the sequel rights associated with films produced by one or more major U.S. movie studios. As owner the rights‚ Arundel would wait to see if a movie was successful‚ and then decide whether or not to produce a second film based on the story or characters of the first. One of the unique features of the new idea was that Arundel would purchase sequel rights before the first films were even made and released
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[键入公司名称] | Report | Dynamic Hedging and Implied Volatility | | sony | | | Part I Dynamic Hedging 1. Basic Information Company | 3M Co. (MMM) | Two different options to mimic | 1) X=87.5 call option‚ expiring at Nov 16‚ 2012. 2) X=90 call option‚ expiring at Nov 16‚ 2012. | 2. Calculate the annualized standard deviation: σ=0.1357502 Completed calculation table (See Appendix) 3. Replicating Portfolios X=87.5 call option Completed calculation table
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----------------------------------- spootyhead Apr 17‚ 2007 Arundel Partners Case Analysis ----------------------------------- Arundel Partners Case Analysis Executive Summary: A group of investors (Arundel group) is looking into the idea of purchasing the sequel rights associated with films produced by one or more major movie studios. Movie rights are to be purchased prior to films being made. Arundel wants to come up with a decision to either purchase all the sequel rights for
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Proponents of this venture believe that Arundel should be able to make money by buying options to movie sequel rights as a portfolio of rights rather than on a film-by-film basis because they are diversifying their risk by spreading their options across multiple projects rather than a single movie. Arundel avoids trying to forecast how well the movie will do by purchasing the options to a group of movies ahead of time‚ thus they minimize the risk of moviegoers preferences changing. Past performances
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Case 1. Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project 1. Why do the principals of Arundel Partners think they can make money buying movie sequel rights? Why do the partners want to buy a portfolio of rights in advance rather than negotiating movie-by-movie to buy them? The principals at Arundel Partners believe that there is value that is not captured in a discounted cash flow when analyzing the launching of a film. They believe that by launching a new film‚ there is immediately an option to launch a sequel
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MW Petroleum Corporation (A) 1. Structure and execute a DCF valuation of all the MW reserves using APV. How much are the reserves worth? Is your estimate more likely to be biased high or low? What are the sources of bias? Answer: The DCF valuation of all the MW reserves using APV indicates that the net worth of the portfolio is around $516.30 million. The estimate is more likely to be biased on the higher side. REVENUES: The data for the projections was collected by Morgan
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FINS 5535 Derivatives and Risk management Techniques Group Assignment Implied Volatilities & Volatility Smiles 1. Why does the target cell in the Solver minimization reference the control variate estimate of the American Put option instead of the value as implied by the tree? It is because that control variate estimate is more accurate than the implied value by the tree. The error of the binominal tree can be reduced by using it only to calculate the difference between the price
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Heston’s Stochastic Volatility Model Implementation‚ Calibration and Some Extensions Sergei Mikhailov‚ Ulrich Nögel Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics‚ Kaiserslautern‚ Germany‚ Mikhailov@itwm.fhg.de; Noegel@itwm.fhg.de 1 Introduction The paper discusses theoretical properties‚ shows the performance and presents some extensions of Heston’s (1993) stochastic volatility model. The model proposed by Heston extends the Black and Scholes (1993) model and includes it as a special
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