Cao, Ji; Härdle, Wolfgang Karl; Mungo, Julius - 2009
As a function of strike and time to maturity the implied volatility estimation is a challenging task in financial … econometrics. Dynamic Semiparametric Factor Models (DSFM) are a model class that allows for the estimation of the implied … volatility surface (IVS) in a dynamic context, employing semiparametric factor functions and time-varying loadings. Because …