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Table of Contents for Recent RFM Issues

Volume 18

Issue 2
When Does the Options Market Lead the Futures Market? Evidence from Taiwan's Emerging Derivatives Market
Scott Fung and Shih-Chuan Tsai
Cash Settlement of Lean Hog Futures Contracts Reexamined
Miguel I. Gomez, Julieta M. Frank, Eugene L. Kunda, and Philip Garcia
Cospectral and Wavelet Analyses of Corn and Gasoline Futures Prices
Joseph McCarthy and Alexei G. Orlov
Keynes on Markets: Why Didn't You Listen?
Paul Dawson, Michael A. Ellis, Mark E. Holder, and Richard J. Kent

Issue 1
Common Industry Exposure in Seemingly Unrelated Commodities
Michael T. Chng
Copula-Based Dynamic Hedging Strategies in Stock Index Futures: International Evidence
Yi-Hao Lai
Day-of-the-Week Effects in the U.S. and Chinese Commodity Futures Markets
Kuei-Chih Lee, Hung-Gay Fung, and Tung Liang Liao
A New Look at Copper Markets: A Regime-switching Model
Wing Hong Chan and Denise Young


Volume 17

Issue 4
New Insights into India’s Single Stock Futures Markets
Mao-wei Hung and Leh-chyan So
Synthetic Currency Cross-Hedge Using Gold Futures versus Currency Forwards under a DCC-GARCH Model
Bing-Huei Lin and Yueh-Neng Lin
Price Formation and Liquidity Surrounding Large Trades in Interest Rate and Equity Index Futures
Angelo Aspris, James Richard Cummings, and Alex Frino
Does Spurious Mean Reversion in Basis Changes Still Exist after the Introduction of Exchange Traded Funds?
Jayaram Muthuswamy, Nivine Richie, Reuben Segara, and Robert Webb

Issue 3
Microstructure Evolution in the Credit Default Swaps Market
MPavel Pinkava and Paul Dawson
A Panel Cointegration Approach to the Relation between Spot and Future Commodity Prices
Benjamas Jirasakuldech, Sean M. Snaith, and Riza Emekter
Realized Volatility and Correlation in Grain Futures Markets: Testing for Spillover Effects
Jae H. Kim and Hristos Doucouliagos
Auction Designs and Futures Price Behavior: Evidence from the Taiwan Futures Market
Hsiu-Chuan Lee, Cheng-Yi Chien, Yi-Fen Hsieh, and Yen-Sheng Huang

Issue 2
Are the European Carbon Markets Efficient?
George Daskalakis and Raphael N. Markellos
Performance, Bias, and Efficiency of Foreign Exchange Correlation Forecasts
Stefano Mazzotta
Option Prices as Predictors of Aggregate Stock Returns
R. Brian Balyeat and Bilal Erturk
The Non-Convergence of the VIX Futures at Expiration
Ivelina Pavlova and Robert T. Daigler

Issue 1
Hedging "Event" Risk
Philip McBride Johnson
Discussion Regarding the Commentary on Hedging "Event" Risk
Kathryn M. Trkla
Public Information, Price Volatility, and Trading Volume in U.S. Bond Markets
Mardi Dungey, Alex Frino, and Michael D. McKenzie (G12, G14)
Value-at-Risk Aanlysis for KOSPI 200 Index Futures: Evidence from Long Memory Volatility Models with a Skewed Student-t Distribution
Sang Hoon Kang and Seong-Min Yoon (C32, C52, G11)
Volatility Estimation and the Performance of Multifactor Term Structure Models for Pricing and Hedging Euribor Options
I-Doun Kuo, Cheng-Hsiang Lin, and Min-Teh Yu (G12, G13)


Volume 16

Issue 4
Special Issue in Derivatives and Risk Management
Guest Editors: Donald Lien, Peter Ritchken, and Jason Wei

Basis Risk and Optimal Hedging of a Purchase Decision
Latha Shanker and Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (G32, D81, G15)
An Economic Analysis of Bonus Certificates — Second-Generation of Structured Products
Rodrigo Hernandez, Jorge Brusa, and Pu Liu (G13, G24)
Calibration of a Commodity Price Model with Unobserved Factors: The Case of Real Estate Index Futures
Lindsay C. Baran, Richard J. Buttimer Jr., and Steven P. Clark (G11, G13)
Risk Minimizing Portfolio Optimization and Hedging with Conditional Value-at-Risk
Jing Li and Mingxin Xu (C60, G11)

Issue 3
The Relationship between Information Flow and Energy Futures Volatility
Eric Girard, Amit Sinha, and Rita Biswas (G15)
An Analysis of Price Linkages among DJIA Index, Futures, and Exchange-traded Fund Markets
Hung-Gay Fung, Qingfeng "Wilson" Liu, and Yiuman Tse (C22, F36, G13)
Moving Forward into the Future
Lars Nordén (G13, G15)
Competition for Order Flow and Market Quality in the Gold and Silver Futures Markets
Valeria Martinez, Zi Ning, and Yiuman Tse (G13, G14)

Issue 2
Put-Call Parity and the Early Exercise Premium for Currency Options
Geoffrey Poitras, Chris Veld, and and Yuriy Zabolotnyuk (G10, G12, G13, G14)
Volume-Volatility Interactions between Exchange-traded Derivatives and OTC Derivatives
Lorne N. Switzer and Haibo Fan (F31, G13, G15)
Equity Options and the Underlying Stocks’ Pricing Efficiency: Evidence from the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Shinhua Liu (G13, G14, G15)
Daily Trading and Efficiency in Futures Markets
A. Can Inci (F31, G12, G13)
Dealer Interaction in Futures Markets
Tzu-Man Huang (G12, G14)

Issue 1
Pricing the Cost of Carbon Dioxide Emission Allowance Futures
Yueh-Neng Lin and Anchor Y. Lin (C51, C53, G13, P34, Q56)
Hedging and the Emergence of Commodity Futures: The Soya Oil Exchange in India
Bharat Ramaswami and Jatinder Bir Singh (G13, Q13)
Gone with the Wind: Chicago’s Weather and Futures Trading
Piman Limpaphayom, Peter R. Locke, and Pattarake Sarajoti (G14, G10, G15)
Time-varying Hedge Ratios: An Application to the Indian Stock Futures Market
Prasad S. Bhattacharya, Harminder Singh, and Gerard L. Gannon (G13)
Fear in the Korea Market
Christopher Ting (G10)


Volume 15

Issue 4
The Two Cultures in the 21st Century: Observations from a Respectful Outsider
Paul Gaston
Pricing and Hedging Euribor Options with Multifactor Interest Rate Models
I-Doun Kuo and Yueh-Neng Lin (G12, G13)
Robust Control Theory and Pricing of Catastrophe-linked Securities
Wenge Zhu (G12, G13)
Margin Setting with POT Model
Chunyang Zhou, Chongfeng Wu, Hailong Liu, and Fubing Liu (G15)

Issue 3
Multi-Market Trading of Gold Futures
Valeria Martinez and Yiuman Tse (G13, G14)
A Return-Volume-Volatility Analysis of Futures Contracts
Duong Nguyen and Robert Daigler (G12, G14)
Covered Calls and Protective Puts: Creating Value across Economic Cycles?
Karyl B. Leggio and Donald Lien (D81, G11)
Trading Opportunities in the Natural Gas-Propane Futures Spread
Mbodja Mougoué (C52, G13)

Issue 2
Generalized Hedge Ratio Estimates with an Unknown Model
Jeffrey H. Dorfman and Dwight R. Sanders (C11, C51, Q14)
An Extension to Fitting Discrete Time Term Structure Models when Rates are Outcomes of Bernoulli Trials
Hari P. Krishnan and Michael J. Tomas III ( )
What Puts the Convenience in Convenience Yields?
Bahram Adrangi, Arjun Chatrath, Rohan Christie-David, and William T. Moore ( )

Issue 1
Liquidity Externality and Migration within the Same Security Exchange
Christopher Ting (G13, C51, C13, C22)
Sources of Price Discovery in the Australian Dollar Currency Market
Alex Frino, Elvis Jarnecic, Maxwell Stevenson, and Andrew Tan (G14)
The Won/Dollar Forward Exchange return and Risk premium: Empirical Evidence from the 1997 Korean Financial Crisis
Taewoo You, Mark Holder, and Thomas C. Chiang (F31)
Markowitz-Sharpe Portfolios for International Stock Index Futures
Leyuan You and Robert T. Daigler (G15)


Volume 14

Issue 4
What is so Special about KOSPI 200 Index Futures Contract? An Analysis of Trading Volume and Liquidity
Ying Huang and Salih N. Neftci (G12, G13)
Trading on the Floor after Sweeping the Book
Vassilis Polimenis (G12)
Price Discovery and Risk Transfer in Thinly Traded Markets: Evidence from Brazilian Agricultural Futures Markets
Fabio Mattos and Philip Garcia (G13, Q13, C32)
Forecasting Performance of Fundamental Natural Gas Price Models, Hedging Strategies, and the Average Cost of Gas: A Study of the U.S. Natural Gas Market
Scott C. Linn and Zhen Zhu (Q40, Q41)

Issue 3
What is so Special about KOSPI 200 Index Futures Contract? An Analysis of Trading Volume and Liquidity
Cetin Ciner, Ahmet K. Karagozoglu, and Wi Saeng Kim (G10)
Option Exchange Design: Liquidity and Trading Activity At the Swedish Index Options Market
Lars Nordén (G13)
Intraday Liquidity Provision in Electronic Futures Markets: "LIFFE" without the Pits
Tatyana Zabotina, Ronald W. Spahr, and Nancy J. Scannell (G10)
Liquidity and Price Discovery on Floor versus Screen-based Trading Systems: An Analysis of Foreign Exchange Futures Markets
Aysegul Ates and George H.K. Wang (G10)

Issue 2 [Fall 2005]
The Implied Exchange Rates Derived from Option Premiums: A Test of the Currency Option Boundary
Peter P. Lung and Takeshi Nishikawa (G14)
The Impact of Net Buying Pressure on Implied Volatilities Observed from SPI Futures Options
Christine Brown and Sean Pinder (G13)
When Contract Size Matters: The Case of Equity Index Futures
Aysegul Ates and George H.K. Wang (G10, G50)
Measuring the Summary Informativeness of Orders and Trades
Michael T. Chng (G14, G28)
Regulatory Change, Structural Breaks, and Transmission Effects in HSIF and HSI Volatility
Siu Pang Au-Yeung and Gerard Gannon (G14)

Issue 1 [Summer 2005]
Liquidity Risk and Risk Measure Computation
Robert A. Jarrow and Philip Protter
Forecasting Accuracy of Implied and GARCH-Based Probability Density Functions
Iliana Anagnou-Basioudis, Mascia Bedendo, Stewart D. Hodges, and Robert Tompkins
A Review of the Interrelated Nature of T-Bond Futures Delivery Options
Robert Daigler
The Spider in the Hedge
Carol Alexander and Andreza Barbosa
The Implied Volatility of Australian Index Options
Sean Dowling and Jayaram Muthuswamy