Nikunj Kapadia

University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance

Associate Professor

Amherst, MA 01003

United States

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~nkapadia/

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (13)

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Stock Return Characteristics, Skew Laws, and the Differential Pricing of Individual Equity Options

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Sep 2001
Gurdip Bakshi, Nikunj Kapadia and Dilip B. Madan
Temple University-Fox School of Business, University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 2,078 (16,165)
Citation 175

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Delta-Hedged Gains and the Negative Market Volatility Risk Premium

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 17 Apr 2001
Nikunj Kapadia and Gurdip Bakshi
University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance and Temple University-Fox School of Business
Downloads 1,787 (20,171)
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Delta-Hedged Gains and the Negative Market Volatility Risk Premium

Posted: 10 Jan 2002
Nikunj Kapadia and Gurdip Bakshi
University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance and Temple University-Fox School of Business

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Option pricing, stochastic volatility, volatility risk premium, delta-hedged gains

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Stock Return Characteristics, Skew Laws, and the Differential Pricing of Individual Equity Options

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 10 Oct 2000
Nikunj Kapadia, Gurdip Bakshi and Dilip B. Madan
University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance, Temple University-Fox School of Business and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 1,629 (23,628)
Citation 65

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risk neutral skews, option pricing, individual stock options

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The Risk and Return Characteristics of the Buy-Write Strategy on the Russell 2000 Index

Journal of Alternative Investments, Spring 2007
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 01 Mar 2007
Nikunj Kapadia and Edward Szado
University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance and Providence College
Downloads 1,247 (35,111)
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options buy-write strategy covered call russell

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Correlated Default Risk

EFA 2003 Annual Conference Paper No. 928; AFA 2003 Washington, DC Meetings
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 23 Sep 2002
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business, Moody's Investors Service, Amaranth Advisors llc and University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance
Downloads 1,021 (46,908)
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15 Years of the Russell 2000 Buy-Write

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 17 Sep 2011
Nikunj Kapadia and Edward Szado
University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance and Providence College
Downloads 925 (53,778)
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Russell, Buy, Write, Covered Call Options, Trading Strategy, Risk Management, Capital Protection

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Limited Arbitrage between Equity and Credit Markets

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 17 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2012
Nikunj Kapadia and Xiaoling Pu
University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance and Kent State University - Department of Finance
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limited arbitrage, credit default swap

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Common Failings: How Corporate Defaults are Correlated

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 02 Jan 2006
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance and Independent
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Correlated default, doubly stochastic, contagion, frailty

Common Failings: How Corporate Defaults are Correlated

NBER Working Paper No. w11961
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 23 Jan 2006 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2022
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance and Independent
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Flows: The ‘Invisible Hands’ on Hedge Fund Management

Midwest Finance Association 2012 Annual Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 19 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2012
Shuang Feng, Mila Getmansky Sherman and Nikunj Kapadia
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management - Department of Finance and University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance
Downloads 318 (199,266)
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Hedge Fund, Fund Flow, Fee Structure, Managerial Incentives, Gross Return

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What's Gone Wrong with Option Liquidity: Evidence from the Knight Capital's Trading Glitch

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 02 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2020
Nikunj Kapadia and Matthew Linn
University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance and Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts
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Liquidity, High-Frequency Trading, Options

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Write on the Money?

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 12 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2016
University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance and Dimensional Fund AdvisorsUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance
Downloads 280 (227,906)

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Variance Risk Premium, Buy-Write, Covered Call, Market Anomalies

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The Conservative Issuer Bias of Corporate Ratings

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 04 May 2014
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency - Risk Analysis Division, University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance and Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
Downloads 79 (642,152)

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Credit ratings, issuer bias, default risk, financing constraints

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Volatility Risk Premiums Embedded in Individual Equity Options: Some New Insights

Posted: 09 Sep 2003
Nikunj Kapadia and Gurdip Bakshi
University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Finance and Temple University-Fox School of Business

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