Showing 1 - 10 of 1,716
In this paper we study implied and realized volatility for the Nordic power forward market. We create an implied volatility index with a fixed time to maturity. This index is compared to a realized volatility time series calculated from high-frequency data. The results show that the implied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011208297
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592500
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012483843
applications in finance are given, including options, models for credit risk and derivatives, and correlation sensitivities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977433
the (far less flexible) original model of Black and Scholes (1973), allowing non-trivial higher moments such as skewness …, excess kurtosis and so on to be incorporated into the pricing of exotic options: Generalising the Gram/Charlier Series A … market involving several currencies, can be used to ensure that the volatility smiles for options on the cross exchange rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011051905
We consider European calls and puts on an asset whose forward price F(t) obeys dF(t)=α(t)A(F)dW(t,) under the forward measure. By using singular perturbation techniques, we obtain explicit algebraic formulas for the implied volatility σB in terms of today's forward price F0 ≡ F(0), the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005495434
options to examine the response of option IV, as well as higher moments of the underlying return distribution, to … options. Findings –The findings suggest that in-the-money and out-of-the money options have difference characteristics in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895044
The current financial crisis offers a unique opportunity to investigate the leading properties of market indicators in a stressed environment and their usefulness from a banking supervision perspective. One pool of relevant information that has been little explored in the empirical literature is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010863572
value of the exercise price. Extension of the second formula's approach to third options value derives the third formula. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964026
In this paper, we propose an empirically-based, non-parametric option pricing model to evaluate S&P 500 index options …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005701215