Oleg Bondarenko, PhD
Professor, Director of the International Center for Futures and Derivatives (ICFD)
Department of Finance
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About
Oleg Bondarenko is a Professor of Finance at the UIC College of Business Administration, where he has been a faculty member since 1997. He also serves as a long-standing Visiting Scholar at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and has previously held a visiting professor appointment at the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Bondarenko is a highly cited financial economist whose research focuses heavily on derivatives pricing, market microstructure, and high-frequency volatility modeling.
His extensive body of work includes pioneering insights into option-implied volatility surfaces, market liquidity indicators, and statistical arbitrage. He frequently collaborates with major financial institutions, having produced multiple high-profile commissioned research studies for the Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) and previously serving on the Cboe Product Development Committee. His empirical research is regularly published in top-tier journals such as the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Econometrics.
Selected Grants
UIC College of Business Administration (2011-2014), Raising the Research Profile of CBA, Grant Recipient
CME Group Foundation (2014), Financial Markets and Risk Management Research Grant, Grant Recipient
IFSID (2015-2018), Research Grant, Grant Recipient
CDI (2021-2022), Research Grant, Grant Recipient
CDI (2021-2023), Research Grant, Grant Recipient
CBOE Options Institute (2023-2024), Research Grant, Grant Recipient
Selected Publications
- “Option Implied Dependence and Correlation Risk Premium” with C. Bernard, 2024, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 59(7), p. 3139-3189
- “Market Return Around the Clock: A Puzzle,” with D. Muravyev, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2023, Vol. 58(3), p. 939-967,
- “Exploring Return Dynamics via Corridor Implied Volatility,” with T. Andersen and M. Gonzalez-Perez, 2015, Review of Financial Studies, Vol 28, p. 2902-2945
- “The Fine Structure of Equity-Index Option Dynamics,” with T. Andersen, V. Todorov, and G. Tauchen, 2015, Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 187, p. 532-546
- “Assessing Measures of Order Flow Toxicity and Early Warning Signals for Market Turbulence,” with T. Andersen, 2015, Review of Finance, Vol. 19, p. 1-54, the lead article
- “Variance Trading and Market Price of Variance Risk,” 2014, Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 180, p. 81-97
- “Why are Put Options So Expensive?” 2014, Quarterly Journal of Finance, Vol. 4 (3), 1450015 [50 pages], the editor’s choice paper
Notable Honors
1993-1995, REAP Fellowship, Caltech
1991, Diploma with Honors, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
1985, Silver Medal, The 26th International Mathematical Olympiad
Education
PhD Social Sciences, 1998 – California Institute of Technology
MS Applied Mathematics and Computational Methods, 1991 – Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology