n this work we develop a strategy to price emb edded options. This kind of options exists in a large numb er of deb entures in the Brazilian market. As this market presents a reduced numb er of assets, pricing the emb edded ...

Esta tese é composta por quatro ensaios sobre precificação de ativos e opções. O primeiro ensaio estuda a precificação de opções de índice no contexto de mercados incompletos. Um novo método é fornecido para construir ...

The inclusion of higher moments in CAPM has been discussed in recent decades. This work performs an empirical test of the model extended to the third and fourth moments, in which the skewness and kurtosis are also priced. ...

Recent papers in finance presented models in which the idiosyncratic skewness is a priced component of security returns. More specifically, stocks with high expected idiosyncratic skewness should have low expected returns. ...