The Enron Bankruptcy: When did the options market in Enron lose it’s smirk?

The Enron Bankruptcy: When did the options market in Enron lose it’s smirk? The Enron Corporation went from a $65 billion dollar market capitalization to bankruptcy in just 16 months. Using statistical techniques for extracting the implied probability distributions built into option prices, I examine the market’s expectation of Enron’s risk of collapse. I find that the options market remained far too optimistic about the stock until just weeks before their bankruptcy filing. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting Springer Journals

The Enron Bankruptcy: When did the options market in Enron lose it’s smirk?

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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Copyright © 2006 by Springer Science + Business Media, LLC
Subject
Finance; Corporate Finance; Accounting/Auditing; Econometrics; Operation Research/Decision Theory
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0924-865X
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1573-7179
D.O.I.
10.1007/s11156-006-0043-2
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Abstract

The Enron Corporation went from a $65 billion dollar market capitalization to bankruptcy in just 16 months. Using statistical techniques for extracting the implied probability distributions built into option prices, I examine the market’s expectation of Enron’s risk of collapse. I find that the options market remained far too optimistic about the stock until just weeks before their bankruptcy filing.

Journal

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting – Springer Journals

Published: Jan 1, 2006

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