Event Risk

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Uncertainty & Ambiguity in Finance

Measuring, pricing, and hedging the fact that investors do not know the true distribution of returns.

Learning Before Scheduled Events: Prediction Markets, State Prices, and Option Valuation featured image

Learning Before Scheduled Events: Prediction Markets, State Prices, and Option Valuation

We price scheduled event risk in an expected utility framework in which investors learn about outcome probabilities beforehand, deriving closed-form event risk premia and option …

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Stochastic Event-Outcome Probabilities and the Pricing of Scheduled Event Risk

We analyze event risk premia in an expected utility framework and provide closed-form solutions under both quadratic and power utility for four different cases: …

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