Measure preserving derivatives and the pricing kernel puzzle. (English) Zbl 1231.91424
Summary: Recent empirical studies have found evidence of nonmonotonicity in the pricing kernels for a variety of market indices. This phenomenon is known as the pricing kernel puzzle. The payoff distribution pricing model of Dybvig predicts that the payoff distribution of a direct investment of $1 in a market index may be replicated by investing less than $1 in some derivative written on that market index whenever the associated pricing kernel is nondecreasing. Using the Hardy-Littlewood rearrangement inequality, we obtain an explicit solution for the cheapest replicating derivative, which we refer to as the optimal measure preserving derivative. The optimal measure preserving derivative is the permutation appearing in Ryff’s decomposition of the pricing kernel with respect to the market payoff measure. We compute optimal measure preserving derivatives corresponding to the estimated physical and risk neutral distributions in the paper by J. C. Jackwerth [“Recovering risk aversion from option prices and realized returns”, Rev. Financ. Stud. 13, 433–451 (2000)] that first brought attention to the pricing kernel puzzle.
MSC:
| 91G20 | Derivative securities (option pricing, hedging, etc.) |
Keywords:
Hardy; Littlewood inequality; payoff distribution pricing model; pricing kernel puzzle; Ryff’s decompositionSoftware:
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