Publications
National Bureau of Economic Research · August 1, 2010
Are Options on Index Futures Profitable for Risk Averse Investors? Empirical Evidence
George Anthony Constantinides, Michal Czerwonko, Jens Carsten Jackwerth, Stylianos Perrakis
Abstract
American options on the S&P 500 index futures that violate the stochastic dominance bounds of Constantinides and Perrakis (2007) from 1983 to 2006 are identified as potentially profitable trades.Call bid prices more frequently violate their upper bound than put bid prices do, while violations of the lower bounds by ask prices are infrequent.In out of sample tests of stochastic dominance, the writing of options that violate the upper bound increases the expected utility of any risk averse investor holding the market and robust.
Financial Markets and Investment StrategiesStochastic processes and financial applicationsFinancial Risk and Volatility ModelingS&P 500 futuresrisk-averse investorsexpected utility
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