While the stochastic volatility (SV) generalization has been shown to improvethe explanatory power compared to the Black-Scholes model, the empiricalimplications of the SV models on option pricing have not been adequately tested.The purpose of this paper is to first estimate a multivariate SV...

While the stochastic volatility (SV) generalization has been shown to improve the explanatory power compared to the Black-Scholes model, the empirical implications of the SV models on option pricing have not been adequately tested. The purpose of this paper is to first estimate a multivariate SV...