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10496
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1650
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981

Overview

Kris Jacobs is affiliated with the University of Houston in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a strong emphasis on Finance as a subfield. Their academic contributions extend across multiple interconnected areas, including Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Stochastic Processes and Financial Applications, Capital Investment and Risk Analysis, Market Dynamics and Volatility, Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling, Credit Risk and Financial Regulations, and Monetary Policy and Economic Impact.

They have published extensively, with a notable presence in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include the SSRN Electronic Journal, where they have contributed fourteen papers, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis with three publications, and the Journal of Banking & Finance with two papers. They have also published in the Review of Financial Studies and The Journal of Finance.

Among their recent scholarly works are:

  • Option Returns, Risk Premiums, and Demand Pressure in Energy Markets (2022), Journal of Banking & Finance
  • Modeling Conditional Factor Risk Premia Implied by Index Option Returns (2024), The Journal of Finance
  • Modeling Conditional Factor Risk Premia Implied by Index Option Returns (2021), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The State Price Density Implied by Crude Oil Futures and Option Prices (2021), Review of Financial Studies
  • Option-Based Estimation of the Price of Coskewness and Cokurtosis Risk (2020), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

Jacobs collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Arnaud Dufays, Jeroen V.K. Rombouts, Anh Thu, Hitesh Doshi, and Mathieu Fournier. These collaborators have contributed to a significant portion of their joint research output.

Their work spans diverse topics that include the measurement and modeling of risk premia related to financial options, the dynamics of energy markets, and the stochastic behavior of financial instruments. This research supports a better understanding of market volatility, risk analysis, and investment strategy formulation.

Best Publications

  • The Determinants of Credit Default Swap Premia

    Jan Ericsson;Kris Jacobs;Rodolfo Oviedo

  • The Shape and Term Structure of the Index Option Smirk: Why Multifactor Stochastic Volatility Models Work So Well

    Peter Christoffersen;Steven Heston;Kris Jacobs

  • Is the Potential for International Diversification Disappearing? A Dynamic Copula Approach

    Peter F. Christoffersen;Vihang Errunza;Kris Jacobs;Hugues Langlois

  • Does realized skewness predict the cross-section of equity returns? ☆

    Diego Amaya;Peter Christoffersen;Peter Christoffersen;Peter Christoffersen;Kris Jacobs;Aurelio Vasquez

  • Market skewness risk and the cross section of stock returns

    Bo Young Chang;Peter F. Christoffersen;Peter F. Christoffersen;Kris Jacobs;Kris Jacobs

  • The Importance of the Loss Function in Option Valuation

    Peter Christoffersen;Peter Christoffersen;Kris Jacobs;Kris Jacobs

  • Option valuation with long-run and short-run volatility components☆

    Peter Christoffersen;Kris Jacobs;Yintian Wang

  • Volatility Dynamics for the S&P500: Evidence from Realized Volatility, Daily Returns, and Option Prices

    Peter Christoffersen;Kris Jacobs;Karim Mimouni

  • Option valuation with conditional skewness

    Peter Christoffersen;Steve Heston;Kris Jacobs

  • Which GARCH Model for Option Valuation

    Peter Christoffersen;Kris Jacobs

  • Capturing Option Anomalies with a Variance-Dependent Pricing Kernel

    Peter Christoffersen;Steven Heston;Kris Jacobs

  • Dynamic jump intensities and risk premiums: Evidence from S&P500 returns and options

    Peter Christoffersen;Peter Christoffersen;Kris Jacobs;Kris Jacobs;Chayawat Ornthanalai

  • Option-Implied Measures of Equity Risk

    Bo-Young Chang;Peter Christoffersen;Peter Christoffersen;Peter Christoffersen;Kris Jacobs;Kris Jacobs;Gregory Vainberg

  • Correlation dynamics and international diversification benefits

    Peter Christoffersen;Peter Christoffersen;Vihang Errunza;Kris Jacobs;Kris Jacobs;Xisong Jin

  • Illiquidity Premia in the Equity Options Market

    Peter Christoffersen;Ruslan Goyenko;Kris Jacobs;Mehdi Karoui

  • Option Valuation with Conditional Heteroskedasticity and Non-Normality

    Peter Christoffersen;Redouane Elkamhi;Bruno Feunou;Kris Jacobs

  • The Determinants of Credit Default Swap Premia

    Jan Ericsson;Kris Jacobs;Rodolfo Oviedo;Rodolfo Oviedo

  • Idiosyncratic Consumption Risk and the Cross Section of Asset Returns

    Kris Jacobs;Kevin Q. Wang

  • The Economic Value of Realized Volatility: Using High-Frequency Returns for Option Valuation

    Peter Christoffersen;Bruno Feunou;Kris Jacobs;Nour Meddahi

  • Market Skewness Risk and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

    Bo Young Chang;Peter Christoffersen;Peter Christoffersen;Peter Christoffersen;Kris Jacobs

  • Option Valuation with Long-Run and Short-Run Volatility Components

    Peter Christoffersen;Peter Christoffersen;Peter Christoffersen;Kris Jacobs;Chayawat Ornthanalai;Yintian Wang

  • The Determinants of Credit Default Swap Premia

    Jan Ericsson;Kris Jacobs;Rodolfo Oviedo-Helfenberger

  • Capturing Option Anomalies with a Variance-Dependent Pricing Kernel

    Peter Christoffersen;Peter Christoffersen;Peter Christoffersen;Kris Jacobs;Steven L. Heston

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Christoffersen
Peter Christoffersen University of Toronto
Vihang R. Errunza
Vihang R. Errunza McGill University
Jin-Chuan Duan
Jin-Chuan Duan National University of Singapore
René Garcia
René Garcia University of Montreal
John C. Ham
John C. Ham New York University Abu Dhabi
Stephen Figlewski
Stephen Figlewski New York University
Francis X. Diebold
Francis X. Diebold University of Pennsylvania

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