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Put-Call Parity and Expected Returns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Thomas J. Finucane
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Abstract

This study examines the hypothesis that in the presence of market frictions, relative put and call prices contain information concerning future returns of the underlying asset. A measure of relative prices is derived from the put-call parity relationship for index options and applied to a three-year sample of OEX option transactions. The results show that the measure of relative index option prices leads the stock market by at least 15 minutes.

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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , December 1991 , pp. 445 - 457
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1991

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