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      Email: aurelio.vasquez@itam.mx

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 Research interests: Empirical Asset pricing and Derivatives.

Published papers:

1. Does Realized Skewness Predict the Cross-Section of Equity Returns? with Diego Amaya, Peter Christoffersen, and Kris Jacobs

Journal of Financial Economics, 2015, Volume 118, Issue 1, Pages 135-167.

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2. Equity Volatility Term Structures and the Cross-Section of Option Returns 

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2017, Volume 52, Issue 6, Pages 2727-2754.

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3. Anomalies in Emerging Markets: The Case of Mexico, with Renata Herrerias and Polux Diaz-Ruiz

The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2020, Volume 53, Pages 101188.

4. Default Risk and Option Returns, (PDF) with Xiao Xiao 

        Management Science, Accepted

5. Anticipating Jumps: Decomposition of Straddle Price with Bei Chen and Quan Gan

  Journal of Banking and Finance, 2023, Volume 149, Pages 106755.

6. Non-Standard Errors with 342 co-authors from 34 countries and 207 institutions (mostly universities). 

 Journal of Finance, Forthcoming.

7. Why Does Volatility Uncertainty Predict Equity Option Returns?  with Jay Cao, Xiao Xiao, and Xintong Zhan

Quarterly Journal of Finance, Forthcoming.

Working papers:

• Does the option market underreact to firm´s left tail risk? with Bei Chen and Quan Gan

Revise and Resubmit requested at the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

• Common Factors in Equity Option Returns, (PDF) with Alex Horenstein and Xiao Xiao

• Making Better Use of Option Prices to Predict Stock Returns, with Dmitriy Muravyev