"We analyze the volatility surface vs. moneyness and time to expiration implied by MIBO options written on the MIB30 …, the most important Italian stock index. We specify and fit a number of models of the implied volatility surface and find … that it has a rich and interesting structure that strongly departs from a constant volatility, Black-Scholes benchmark …

"One key stylized fact in the empirical option pricing literature is the existence of an implied volatility surface … (IVS). The usual approach consists of fitting a linear model linking the implied volatility to the time to maturity and the … Dumas et al. (1998). In the second-stage we model the dynamics of the cross-sectional first-stage implied volatility surface …

to be robust using both the realized volatility model and the GARCH model, confirm that the value premium cannot be …

"The paper documents a new empirical result that a high level of aggregate U.S. idiosyncratic stock return volatility … currencies. For example, idiosyncratic volatility accounts for over 20 percent variations of the subsequent change in the … between a country's aggregate idiosyncratic volatility and the future U.S. dollar price of its currency--in France, Germany …