Alexander, Carol; Lazar, Emese - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2008
GARCH option pricing models have the advantage of a well-established econometric foundation. However, multiple states … need to be introduced as single state GARCH and even Levy processes are unable to explain the term structure of the moments … of financial data. We show that the continuous time version of the Markov switching GARCH(1,1) process is a stochastic …