% Backus, Chernov, and Martin, "Disasters in equity index options" % Index of Matlab programs % Written: September 2008 and after % % 1. Data analysis % % Shiller_data.m computes summary statistics from data supplied by Shiller % acf.m procedure to compute autocorrelations % % 2. Properties of "disaster" models % % (a) Macro-finance models % entropy_bernoulli.m entropy and cumulants for bernoulli jumps % entropy_poisson.m ditto for poisson jumps % % (b) Option models % entropy_options.m entropy for Merton model % options_merton.m option prices and implied vols for Merton model of option prices % % 3. Comparison of macro-finance and option models % % entropy_options_implied_cons option prices and implied vols for Merton model of option prices % options.... % % 4. Other % % tailprobs.m tail probabilities for poisson-normal mixtures % % OLD FILES % fig_bernoulli.m