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Welcome to the Cboe Research Archives! Here, you will find whitepapers and research pieces exploring many areas of our markets - from derivatives products and trends to market structure, participants, and more.
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Featured Works
Option-Implied Factor Dispersion (Sponsored by The Options Institute Research Grant)
Author: Grigory Vilkov and Lorenzo Schoenleber
Publication: Cboe Global Markets
Date:
2024
Type: pdf
Category: Index Options Strategies, Option-writing, Options Benchmark Indexes
VIX Maturity Interpolation (Sponsored by The Options Institute Research Grant)
Author: Torben G. Andersen, Oleg Bondarenko and Maria T. Gonzalez-Perez
Publication: Cboe Global Markets
Date:
2024
Type: pdf
Category: VIX and Volatility, VIX Benchmark Indexes
Hedging vs. Diversification: Comparing the Costs of Hedging to the Costs of Diversification
Author: Patrick Hennessy, Dominick Paoloni
Publication: IPS Strategic Capital
Date:
2021
Type: pdf
Category: Hedging, Index Options Strategies
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0DTE Index Options and Market Volatility: How Large is Their Impact? (Sponsored by The Options Institute Research Grant)
Author: Diego Amaya, Pedro A. Garcia-Ares, Neil D. Pearson and Aurelio Vasquez
Publication: Cboe Global Markets
Date: 2025
Type: pdf
Category: Index Options Strategies, VIX and Volatility -
New Evidence on the Performance of Customer Options Trades (Sponsored by The Options Institute Research Grant)
Author: Diego Amaya, Pedro A. Garcia-Ares, Neil D. Pearson and Aurelio Vasquez
Publication: Cboe Global Markets
Date: 2025
Type: pdf
Category: Options Pricing -
Inflation and Options: Volume 2, Through the Lens of VIX Options (Sponsored by The Options Institute Research Grant)
Author: Ali Nejadmalayeri and William Campbell
Publication: Cboe Global Markets
Date: 2024
Type: pdf
Category: VIX and Volatility -
Inflation and Options: Volume 1, Through the Lens of SPX Options
Author: Ali Nejadmalayeri and William Campbell
Publication: Cboe Global Markets
Date: 2024
Type: pdf
Category: SPX Options -
Analyst Price Targets and Retail Options Trading (Sponsored by The Options Institute Research Grant)
Author: Shuaiqi Li
Publication: Cboe Global Markets
Date: 2024
Type: pdf
Category: Options Pricing -
Protected Options: An Alternative to Covered Writing Using Cash-Settled Index Options
Author: Jim Adams
Publication: Cboe Global Markets
Date: 2024
Type: pdf
Category: Index Options Strategies, Option-writing, Hedging -
The Biggest Opportunity in Small-Caps: Mini-Russell 2000 Index Options
Author: EQDerivatives
Publication: EQDerivatives
Date: October 2021
Type: External Link
Category: Index Options Strategies, Russell 2000 Options -
The Portfolio Diversification Potential of Long VIX® Futures and Options Strategies
Author: Edward Szado
Publication: Providence College
Date: June 15, 2020
Type: pdf
Category: VIX and Volatility -
Selling VIX® Futures and Options for Portfolio Return Enhancement
Author: Edward Szado
Publication: Providence College
Date: June 15, 2020
Type: pdf
Category: VIX and Volatility -
News Sentiment as an Explanation for Changes in the VIX Futures Basis
Author: Lee A. Smales
Publication: The Journal of Investing
Date: June 2020
Type: External Link
Category: VIX and Volatility