This paper first studies the Chinese warrant market that has been developing since August 2005.
Empirical evidence shows that the market prices of warrants are much higher systematically than
the Black-Scholes prices with historical volatility. The prices of a warrant and its underlying asset
do not support the monotonicity, perfect correlation and option redundancy properties. The
cumulated delta-hedged gains for almost all expired warrants are negative. The negative gains are
mainly driven by the volatility risk, and the trading values of the warrants for puts and the market
risk for calls. The investors are trading some other risks in addition to the underlying risk.
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