Hedging and Evaluating Tail Risks via Two Novel Options Based on Type II Extreme Value Distribution

Tail risk is an important financial issue today, but directly hedging tail risks with an ad hoc option is still an unresolved problem since it is not easy to specify a suitable and asymmetric pricing kernel. By defining two ad hoc underlying “assets”, this paper designs two novel tail risk options (...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hang Lin, Lixin Liu, Zhengjun Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-09-01
Series:Symmetry
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/9/1630