he prices observed for stock index futures have surprised both academics and T practitioners. The price structure, which gives the relation between the futures and spot prices as a function of the time to maturity, is generally flatter than simple arbitrage models predict. In fact, the futures price
Price Expectation and the Pricing of Stock Index Futures
โ Scribed by Hsinan Hsu; Janchung Wang
- Book ID
- 111606644
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 121 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0924-865X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
## Introduction he Nikkei Stock Average Futures contract started trading at the Singapore T International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX) on September 3, 1986. SIMEX became the first futures exchange to trade a stock index futures outside the country where the indexed stocks are traded. The stock index
n two articles, French (1983a, 1983b) argue that the prices of stock I index futures contracts may be less than predicted by a model which assumes perfect markets and ignores taxes, because futures traders lose the tax timing option. This article presents empirical tests of that conjecture. The res