In an affine term structure framework with stochastic volatility, we derive the characteristic function of the log swap rate. Having the characteristic function, we employ Fast Fourier Techniques (FFT) to price swaptions. Using ten years of swap rates and swaption premiums, model parameters are...

Comparisons are made of the CBOE skew index with those derived from parametric skews of bilateral gamma models and from the differentiation of option implied characteristic exponents. Discrepancies may be attributed to strike discretization in evaluating prices of powered returns. The remedy...

Asset returns are modeled by bilateral gamma processes with zero covariations. Covariances are then observed to be consequences of randomness in variations. Support vector machine regressions on prices are employed to model the implied randomness. The contributions of support vector machine...