A transactions data analysis of arbitrage between index options and index futures
β Scribed by Jae Ha Lee; Nandkumar Nayar
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 743 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-7314
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We are grateful to Louis Ederington, Scott Linn, and Lee Willinger for helpful discussions. This article was presented at the 1992 F.M.A. meetings and we thank Gary Gastineau and Tom Miller for their comments. The Center for Financial Studies at the University of Oklahoma provided financial support to acquire data used in this study.
'The SPX option contract is not the most heavily traded stock index option contract. The OEX option contract, based on the S&P 100 Index, trades more heavily.
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