Past Workshops
March 23, 2023
Davide Tomio (UVA Darden)
"A Real Cost of Free Trades: Retail Option Trading Increases the Volatility of Underlying Securities" with Marc Lipson and Jiang Zhang
March 9, 2023
Sophia Li (Rutgers)
"Forecasting and Managing Correlation Risks" with Tim Bollerslev and Yushan Tang
February 16, 2023
Alessio Saretto (Dallas Fed)
"Are Equity Option Returns Abnormal? IPCA Says No" with Amit Goyal
February 2, 2023
Joost Driessen (Tilburg)
"Π-CAPM: The Classical CAPM with Probability Weighting and Skewed Assets" with Sebastian Ebert and Joren Koeter
January 19, 2023
Liuren Wu (Baruch)
"Common Pricing of Decentralized Risk: A Linear Option Pricing Model" with Yuzhao Zhang
December 1, 2022
Tyler Muir (UCLA)
"Whatever it Takes? The Impact of Conditional Policy Promises," with Valentin Haddad and Alan Moreira
November 17, 2022
Turan Bali (Georgetown)
"A Factor Model for Stock Options" with Jay Cao, Fousseni Chabi-Yo, Linjia Song, and Xintong Zhan
November 3, 2022
David Bates (Iowa)
"Stock Market Volatility and the VIX."
October 20, 2022
Taisiya Sikorskaya (LBS)
"Retail Trading in Options and the Rise of the Big Three Wholesalers" with S. Bryzgalova and A. Pavlova
October 7, 2022
John Hull and Zissis Poulos (Toronto)
Hedging Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
April 14, 2022
Viktor Todorov (Kellogg)
Jumps, Leverage, and Risk Premia with Tim Bollerslev
March 31, 2022
Xintong Zhan (Fudan University)
Unlocking ESG Premium from Options with Jie Cao, Amit Goyal, and Weiming Zhang
March 17, 2022
Andrea Velodin (BU)
Hansen-Jagannathan Unbound: Testable Restrictions of Asset Pricing Models with Piotr Orłowski, Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, and Fabio Trojani
March 3, 2022
Esen Onur (CFTC)
Who Trades Bitcoin Futures and Why? with Alex Ferko, Amani Moin, and Michael Penick
February 17, 2022
Amit Goyal (U of Lausanne and SFI)
Cheap Options Are Expensive, with Alexei Boulatov, Assaf Eisdorfer, and Alexei Zhdanov
February 3, 2022
Math Fournier (HEC Montréal)
Understanding the Comovement between Corporate Bonds and Stocks: The Role of Default Risk with A. Dickerson, A. Jeanneret, and P. Mueller
January 20, 2022
Ian Martin (LSE)
“Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs” with Dimitris Papadimitriou
December 1, 2021
David Schreindorfer (ASU)
“Volatility and the Pricing Kernel” with Tobias Sichert
November 17, 2021
Olivier Daviaud (Société Générale)
"Linking the performance of vanilla options to the volatility premium" with Abhishek Mukhopadhyay
November 3, 2021
October 27, 2021
October 13, 2021
October 13, 2021
Heiner Beckmeyer
"Option Return Predictability with Machine Learning and Big Data" with Turan Bali, Mathis Moerke, and Florian Weigert
September 29, 2021
Gurdip Bakshi (Temple)
"Volatility Uncertainty and VIX Futures Contango" with John Crosby, Xiaohui Gao, and Jinming Xue
September 15, 2021
Pietro Veronesi (Chicago Booth)
"Option-Implied Spreads and Option Risk Premia" with Christopher Culp, Mihir Gandhi, and Yoshio Nozawa
June 9, 2021
Jan Ericsson (McGill)
Asset Variance Risk and Compound Option Prices, with Hitesh Doshi, Mathieu Fournier, and Sang Seo
June 2, 2021
Mariana Khapko (Toronto)
Asymmetries and the Market for Put Options, with Adam Farago and Chayawat Ornthanalai
May 19, 2021
Andrey Ermolov (Fordham)
The variance risk premium in equilibrium models, with Geert Bekaert and Eric Engstrom
May 5, 2021
Markus Leippold (U of Zurich)
Ask BERT: How Regulatory Disclosure of Transition and Physical Climate Risks affects the CDS Term Structure, with Julian Kölbel, Jordy Rillaerts, and Qian Wang
May 12, 2021
Donghwa Shin (UNC)
The Impact of Derivatives on Cash Markets: Evidence From the Introduction of Bitcoin Futures Contracts, with Patrick Augustin and Alexey Rubtsov
March 24, 2021
Fousseni Chabi-Yo (UMass Amherst)
"A Decomposition of Conditional Risk Premia and Implications for Representative Agent Models" with J. Loudis
April 7, 2021
Marco Avellaneda (NYU)
"Trading Signals In VIX Futures" with T. N. Li, A. Papanicolaou, and G. Wang
April 21, 2021
Liuren Wu (Baruch)
Limits of Arbitrage and Primary Risk Taking in Derivative Securities, with Meng Tian
April 28, 2021
Ruslan Goyenko (McGill)
"The Joint Cross Section of Option and Stock Returns Predictability with Big Data and Machine Learning", with Chengyu Zhang
February 24, 2021
Nicola Fusari (Johns Hopkins)
"Structural Stochastic Volatility" with F. Bandi and R. Reno
February 10, 2021
Pierre Collin-Dufresne (SFI @ EPFL)
"How integrated are credit and equity markets? Evidence from index options" with B. Junge and A. Trolle
January 13, 2021
Darrell Duffie (Stanford GSB)
"Reserves Were Not So Ample After All" with Adam Copeland and Yilin (David) Yang
March 10, 2021
Stefano Giglio (Yale)
"Equity Term Structures without Dividend Strips Data" with B. Kelly and S Kozak
October 28, 2020
Bjørn Eraker (Wisconsin-Madison)
October 21, 2020
Sang Byung Seo (Wisconsin-Madison)
November 4, 2020
Tobias Sichert (Stockholm School of Economics)
“The Shape of the Pricing Kernel and Expected Option Returns”
PhD Workshop
October 7, 2020
Shuaiqi Li (U of Maryland)
"Option Momentum" with S. Heston
October 7, 2020
Yannick Dillschneider (Goethe University Frankfurt)
"GMM Estimation of Stochastic Volatility Models Using Transform-Based Moments of Derivatives Prices" with R. Maurer
October 14, 2020
CDI Derivatives Conference
September 30, 2020
"Modeling Volatility in Dynamic Term Structure Models" by H. Doshi, K. Jacobs and Rui Liu, slides
Discussion by Guillaume Roussellet (McGill), slides
September 30, 2020
"The Dark Matter in Equity Index Volatility Dynamics: Assessing the Economic Rationales for Unspanned Risks" by Gurdip Bakshi, J. Crosby and X. Gao, slides
Discussion by Winston Dou (Wharton), slides
September 23, 2020
"The Cross Section of the Monetary Policy Announcement Premium" by H. Ai, L.J. Han, Xuhui (Nick) Pan, and L. Xu, slides
Discussion: Michael Weber (Chicago), slides
September 23, 2020
"Fed Tails: FOMC Announcements and Stock Market Uncertainty" by Heiner Beckmeyer, N. Branger and T. Grünthaler, slides
Discussion: Emanuel Moench (Bundesbank), slides
September 16, 2020
"Bond Funds and Credit Risk" by Jaewon Choi, A. Dasgupta and J.Y.J. Oh
Discussion: Vikas Agarwal (GSU)
September 16, 2020
"Risk Appetite and Intermediation by Swap Dealers" by S. Mixon and Esen Onur
Discussion: Lars Lochstoer (UCLA)
September 9, 2020
"Price Pressures and Option Returns"* by Ruslan Goyenko and C. Zhang (McGill), slides
Discussion: Albert Menkveld (VU Amsterdam), slides
September 9, 2020
"Market Return Around the Clock: A Puzzle" by O. Bondarenko and Dmitriy Muravyev, slides
Discussion: Charles Martineau (Toronto), slides
September 2, 2020
"Engineering Lemons" by Petra Vokata (OSU), slides
Discussion: Neil Pearson (UIUC), slides
September 2, 2020
"Extrapolation and Complexity" by Donghwa Shin (UNC), slides
Discussion: Boris Vallée (Harvard), slides
Junior Career Researcher Series
August 26, 2020
Jose Maria Barrero (ITAM), slides
“Short and Long Run Uncertainty” with N. Bloom and I. Wright
August 19, 2020
Antonia Kirilova (SMU), slides
“Who Profits from Trading Options?” with J. Hu, D. Ryu, and S. Park
August 12, 2020
Chukwuma Dim (Frankfurt School), slides
“Generalized Bounds on the Conditional Expected Excess Return on Individual Stocks” with F. Chabi-Yo & G. Vilkov
August 5, 2020
Patrick Augustin (McGill University), slides
“In Sickness and in Debt: The COVID-19 Impact on Sovereign Credit Risk” with V. Sokolovski, M. Subrahmanyam, & D. Tomio
July 29, 2020
Paola Pederzoli (University of Houston), slides, chat
July 22, 2020
"Are intermediary constraints priced?" with B. M. Hébert and A. Wang Huber
July 15, 2020
Steve Heston (University of Maryland), slides
June 10, 2020
Torben Andersen (Northwestern Kellogg), slides
"Option-Based Tail Variation Measures, the Equity Risk Premium, and a Peek at tailindex.com."
July 1, 2020
Ian Dew-Becker (Northwestern Kellogg)
"Cross-sectional uncertainty and the business cycle: Evidence from 40 years of options data" with Stefano Giglio
June 24, 2020
Kris Jacobs (University of Houston), slides
"Expected and Realized Returns on Volatility" with G. Hu
July 8, 2020
Gurdip Bakshi (Temple University)
"A New Formula for the Expected Excess Return of the Market." with J. Crosby, X. Gao Bakshi, and W. Zhou
May 13, 2020
Peter Carr (NYU), slides
"The Bachelier Model and a Simpler Alternative"
May 20, 2020
Fabio Trojani (University of Geneva, SFI), slides
"Smart Stochastic Discount Factors" with S. A. Korsaye and A. Quaini
June 3, 2020
Mikhail Chernov (UCLA Anderson), slides
"A no-arbitrage perspective on global arbitrage opportunities" with P. Augustin, L. Schmid, and D. Song
June 17, 2020
Francis Longstaff (UCLA Anderson), slides
"Renting Balance Sheet Space: Intermediary Balance Sheet Rental Costs and the Valuation of Derivatives" with Matthias Fleckenstein