This study examines the distributional properties of futures prices for contracts traded on LIFFE. A filtering process is employed to remove day of the week and holiday effects, a maturity effect, moving average effects ...
Cotter, John; Dowd, Kevin(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2006-12-23)
This paper presents non-parametric estimates of spectral risk measures applied to long and short positions in 5 prominent equity futures contracts. It also compares these to estimates of two popular alternative measures, ...
This study presents nonparametric estimates of spectral risk measures (SRM)
applied to long and short positions in five prominent equity futures contracts. It
also compares these to estimates of two popular alternative ...
Cotter, John; Longin, François(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004-06-14)
Both in practice and in the academic literature, models for setting margin requirements in futures markets use daily closing price changes. However, financial markets have recently shown high intraday volatility, which ...
Cotter, John(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004)
Key to the imposition of appropriate minimum capital requirements on a daily
basis requires accurate volatility estimation. Here, measures are presented based on discrete estimation of aggregated high frequency UK futures ...
Key to the imposition of appropriate minimum capital requirements on a daily basis is accurate volatility estimation. Here, measures are presented based on discrete estimation of aggregated high-frequency UK futures ...
Cotter, John(Money Macro and Finance Research Group, 2003)
Key to the imposition of appropriate minimum capital requirements on a daily
basis requires accurate volatility estimation. Here, measures are presented based on
discrete estimation of aggregated high frequency UK futures ...
A scaled self-decomposable stochastic process put forward by Carr, Geman, Madan
and Yor (2007) is used to model long term equity returns and options prices. This
parsimonious model is compared to a number of other ...