Haven, Emmanuel; Liu, Xiaoquan; Ma, Chenghu; Shen, Liya - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 33 (2009) 3, pp. 692-709
Options are believed to contain unique information on the risk-neutral moment generating function (MGF) or the risk-neutral probability density function (PDF) of the underlying asset. This paper applies the wavelet method to approximate the implied risk-neutral MGF from option prices. Monte...