2019 (Feb-Jun) PhD Group Meeting

Department of Accountancy and Finance, Otago Business School

3:00am-4:00pm, Thursday, Starting from Feb. 28th, 2019, CO 3.36

2:00am-3:00pm, Tuesday, Starting from April. 2th, 2019, CO 3.36

Initiator: Prof. Jin Zhang

Organizer: Wei Lin

2019.5.28 2pm-3pm

Presenter:

Wei Guo

Title: Do 'Brothers' Smirk differently? Evidence from SPX and SPY Options.

2019.5.21 2pm-3pm

Presenter:

Beam

Title: Bakshi, Kapadia, and Madan (2003) Risk-Neutral Moment Estimators

Material: Bakshi, Kapadia and Madan (2003)

2019.5.14 2pm-3pm

Presenter:

Wei Lin

Title: The Valid Regions of Gram-Charlier Densities

Material: Jondeau and Rockinger (2001)

2019.4.30 2pm-3pm

Presenter:

Beam

Title: BKM Methods

Material: Bakshi, Kapadia and Madan (2003)

2019.4.16 2pm-3pm

Presenter:

Fergus

Title: A Review of Stochastic Portfolio Theory and its Real World Applications

Material: Fernholz and E. Robert (2017)

Slides: The Shared Link

2019.4.9 2pm-3pm

Presenter:

Xinfeng Ruan

Title: Equilibrium Variance Risk Premium and Option Smirk in the AK Production Model

Material: Xinfeng Ruan SSRN (2017)

2019.4.4 3pm-4pm

Presenter: Wei Lin

Supervisors: Prof. Jin Zhang

Title: The Recovery Theorem

Material: Steve Ross JF (2015)

2019.3.14 3pm-4pm

Presenter: Wei Guo

Supervisors: Prof. Jin Zhang

Title: Index option returns

Material: Constantinides et al RFS (2013) and

Buraschi and Jackwerth RFS (2001)

2019.3.7 3pm-4pm

Presenter: Tin

Supervisors: Prof. Jin Zhang

Title: The implied volatility index for the Chinese Equity market

Material: Carr, Wu and Liu (2008) and

Zhang and Xiang (2008)

2019.2.28 3pm-4pm

Presenter: Beam

Supervisors: Prof. Jin Zhang

Title: Examination of higher risk-neutral moment estimators

Material: Bakshi, Kapadia and Madan (2003)