The purpose of this paper is to analyse the risk-neutral density derived from prices of DAX options. We first estimate two specifications of the RND. Then, we focus on observable factors that may drive changes in the moments of the RND. For this purpose, we investigate the impact of various macroeconomic and financial variables on risk-neutral densities of stock market movements. In this way, we attempt to uncover relationships between the implied volatility, skewness and kurtosis computed from the RND and the underlying fundamentals of the stock market. Our paper offers two contributions to the literature: First, we investigate RNDs for the German stock market, which.
