The Arbitrage Efficiency of Nikkei 225 Options Market

The Arbitrage Efficiency of Nikkei 225 Options Market
Author: Steven Li
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2006
Genre: Arbitrage
ISBN:

This paper is concerned with arbitrage efficiency of the Nikkei index option contracts traded on the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE) within the put-call parity (PCP) framework. A thorough ex post analysis is first carried out. The results reveal a modest number of violations with 2.74% of the sample breaching the PCP equation and an average arbitrage profit of 22.61 index points for OSE member firms during the sample period (2003-05). Ex ante tests are then conducted whereby ex post profitable arbitrage strategies, signified by the matched put and call contracts, are executed with lags of 1 minute and 3 minutes. The ex ante results reveal that the number of profitable arbitrage opportunities and the average profit are both reduced significantly with an execution lag. In addition, regression analysis is used to provide further evidence about the PCP and arbitrage profitability. Overall, there is no strong evidence found against the efficiency of the Nikkei 225 options market, though arbitrage opportunities do exist occasionally.--Author's abstract.

Derivatives, Risk Management & Value

Derivatives, Risk Management & Value
Author: Mondher Bellalah
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 996
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9812838635

19.1. Numerical analysis and simulation techniques : an introduction to finite difference methods. 19.2. Application to European options on non-dividend paying stocks. 19.3. Valuation of American options with a composite volatility. 19.4. Simulation methods : Monte-Carlo method. ch. 20. Numerical methods and partial differential equations for European and American derivatives with complete and incomplete information. 20.1. Valuation of American calls on dividend-paying stocks. 20.2. American puts on dividend-paying stocks. 20.3. Numerical procedures in the presence of information costs : applications. 20.4. Convertible bonds. 20.5. Two-factor interest rate models and bond pricing within information uncertainty. 20.6. CBs pricing within information uncertainty -- pt. VIII. Exotic derivatives. ch. 21. Risk management : exotics and second-generation options. 21.1. Exchange options. 21.2. Forward-start options. 21.3. Pay-later options. 21.4. Simple chooser options. 21.5. Complex choosers. 21.6. Compound options. 21.7. Options on the maximum (minimum). 21.8. Extendible options. 21.9. Equity-linked foreign exchange options and quantos. 21.10. Binary barrier options. 21.11. Lookback options. ch. 22. Value at risk, credit risk, and credit derivatives. 22.1. VaR and riskmetrics : definitions and basic concepts. 22.2. Statistical and probability foundation of VaR. 22.3. A more advanced approach to VaR. 22.4. Credit valuation and the creditmetrics approach. 22.5. Default and credit-quality migration in the creditmetrics approach. 22.6. Credit-quality correlations. 22.7. Portfolio management of default risk in the Kealhofer, McQuown and Vasicek (KMV) approach. 22.8. Credit derivatives : definitions and main concepts. 22.9. The rating agencies models and the proprietary models.