Demand for Crash Insurance, Intermediary Constraints, and Risk Premia in Financial Markets

We propose a new measure of financial intermediary constraints based on how intermediaries manage their tail risk exposures. Using data for the trading activities in the market of deep out-of-the-money index put options, we identify periods when the variations in the net amount of trading between fi...

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Main Author: Chen, Hui (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2021-02-08T18:58:02Z.
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