Gambling preference and individual equity option returns

SJ Byun, DH Kim - Journal of Financial Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
We investigate the relation between the option returns and the underlying stock's lottery-like
characteristics. Call options written on the most lottery-like stocks underperform otherwise …

Continuing overreaction and stock return predictability

SJ Byun, SS Lim, SH Yun - Journal of Financial and Quantitative …, 2016 - cambridge.org
We study the return predictability of a measure of continuing overreaction based on the
weighted average of signed volumes. We find that the strategies of buying stocks with upward …

Forecasting carbon futures volatility using GARCH models with energy volatilities

SJ Byun, H Cho - Energy Economics, 2013 - Elsevier
This article examines the volatility forecasting abilities of three approaches: GARCH-type
model that uses carbon futures prices, an implied volatility from carbon options prices, and the k…

[PDF][PDF] Optimal exercise boundary in a binomial option pricing model

SJ Byun, IJ Kim - Journal of Financial Engineering, 1994 - researchgate.net
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Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; 373–1 Kusong-dong, Yusong-gu, Taejon 305…

Foreign investors and corporate governance in Korea

IJ Kim, J Eppler-Kim, WS Kim, SJ Byun - Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper has two aims. The first aim is to investigate whether poor corporate governance
negatively affects equity participation of foreign investors. The second aim is to investigate …

The role of psychological barriers in lottery-related anomalies

SJ Byun, J Goh, DH Kim - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2020 - Elsevier
It is well documented that stocks with lottery-like characteristics are overpriced. We find that
the lottery-related anomaly exists primarily among stocks that are far from their 52-week high …

The information content of risk-neutral skewness for volatility forecasting

SJ Byun, JS Kim - Journal of Empirical Finance, 2013 - Elsevier
The paper investigates whether risk-neutral skewness has incremental explanatory power
for future volatility in the S&P 500 index. While most of previous studies have investigated the …

Time-varying expected momentum profits

D Kim, TY Roh, BK Min, SJ Byun - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper examines the time variations of expected momentum profits using a two-state
Markov switching model with time-varying transition probabilities to evaluate the empirical …

The role of the variance premium in Jump-GARCH option pricing models

SJ Byun, BH Jeon, B Min, SJ Yoon - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2015 - Elsevier
We develop a discrete-time option pricing model incorporating a variance-dependent pricing
kernel of Christoffersen et al. (2013) under an economic framework allowing for dynamic …

A comprehensive look at the return predictability of variance risk premia

SJ Byun, B Frijns, TY Roh - Journal of Futures Markets, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The discrepancy between in‐sample and out‐of‐sample predictability of common predictors
for asset returns has been widely discussed in the literature. We examine the out‐of‐sample …