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Crash of '87 -- Was it expected?: Aggregate market fears and long-range dependence

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  • Gençay, Ramazan
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We develop a dynamic framework to identify aggregate market fears ahead of a major market crash through the skewness premium of European options. Our methodology is based on measuring the distribution of a skewness premium through a q-Gaussian density and a maximum entropy principle. Our findings indicate that the October 19th, 1987 crash was predictable from the study of the skewness premium of deepest out-of-the-money options about two months prior to the crash.

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  • Gençay, Ramazan & Gradojevic, Nikola, 2010. "Crash of '87 -- Was it expected?: Aggregate market fears and long-range dependence," Journal of Empirical Finance, Elsevier, vol. 17(2), pages 270-282, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:empfin:v:17:y:2010:i:2:p:270-282
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    Non-additive entropy Shannon entropy Tsallis entropy q-Gaussian distribution Skewness premium;

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    • G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
    • C40 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - General

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