Dividends and S&P 100 index option valuation
โ Scribed by Campbell R. Harvey; Robert E. Whaley
- Book ID
- 102845738
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 918 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-7314
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โฆ Synopsis
We thank Arthur Evans, Jefferson Fleming, Sunil Paremeswan, and Shrikant Ramamurthy for their research assistance. James Fazio at Standard and Poor's Corporation provided valuable help i n constructing our series. The comments of Gary Gastineau and R e d Stulz are gratefully acknowledged. We also appreciate the comments of two anonymous referees. This research is supported by the Futures and Options Research Center at Duke University.
'Beginning with the month of June 1988, Standard and Poor's reports the daily cash dividends of the S&P 100 index. However, prior to June 1988, no published series is available. The S&P 100 cash dividend series created here for the pre-June 1988 period is available on diskette from the authors.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
## I9 12 5 . The horizontal axis measures option moneyness, defined as the percentage difference between a discounted strike price and a stock price, i.e., ## Ke-* -So Ke-\* x 100 and the vertical axis measures values for -Q3 and Q4. The most telling observation from Figure is that negative s
We would like to thank Campbell Harvey for providing the discrete dividend data used in the computation of implied standard deviations of the S&P 100 index. The article has greatly benefited from the constructive suggestions of two anonymous referees of The Journal of Futures Markets.
## Abstract Canonical valuation is a nonparametric method for valuing derivatives proposed by M. Stutzer (1996). Although the properties of canonical estimates of option price and hedge ratio have been studied in simulation settings, applications of the methodology to traded derivative data are rar