The behavior of the dollar/euro exchange rate is modeled using a monetary model of the exchange rate. The econometric … analysis is complicated by the short sample span of actual euro data available for analysis. Hence, data on a "synthetic" euro …, is identified for the 1991M08-1999M12 period using the Johansen procedure. The model implies that the euro was …

which succeeds with high probability. -- Hedging ; superhedging ; Neyman Pearson lemma ; stochastic volatility ; value at …

We establish a relation between stochastic volatility models and the class of generalized hyperbolic distributions …

Stochastic Volatility (SV) models are widely used in financial applications. To decide whether standard parametric …

mean. For the volatility function, i.e., the conditional variance given the past, a multiplicative structure is more … appropriate than an additive one, as the volatility is a positive scale function and a multiplicative model provides a better … additive mean and the multiplicative volatility. The technique used is marginally integrated local polynomial estimation. The …

find that the volatility depends on either the interest rate level or information shocks but not on both. Finally, we … propose to describe the short term interest rate's dynamics by means of an AR(1) model with stochastic volatility. -- Term … Structure Models ; Stochastic Volatility ; ARCH …

simultaneous estimation of the interdependent duration-volatility model. In an empirical application we utilize the model for an … indirect test of the hypothesis that volatility is caused by private information that affects prices when informed investors … trade. The result that volatility shocks significantly increase expected inter-transaction durations supports this …

By extending the GARCH option pricing model of Duan (1995) to more flexible volatility estimation it is shown that the … prices of out-of-the-money options strongly depend on volatility features such as asymmetry. Results are provided for the …

A primary goal in modelling the dynamics of implied volatility surfaces (IVS) aims at reducing complexity. For this …, neglects the degenerated string structure of the implied volatility data and may result in a severe modelling bias. We propose … value at risk computations and scenario analysis. -- Implied Volatility Surface ; Smile ; Generalized Additive Models …