investigate the volatility smile derived from liquid call and put options on the Polish WIG20 index which option series expired on … volatilities for moneyness points needed were calculated, then we construct 355 smile curves for calls and puts options to study …

procedure. I parameterize the underlying exchange rate process as a mixture of log-normals, price the options using Monte Carlo …

the (far less flexible) original model of Black and Scholes (1973), allowing non-trivial higher moments such as skewness …, excess kurtosis and so on to be incorporated into the pricing of exotic options: Generalising the Gram/Charlier Series A … market involving several currencies, can be used to ensure that the volatility smiles for options on the cross exchange rate …

financial crisis. To this end, we derive risk-neutral densities from the implied volatilities of FX options, which approximate …-of-sample predictive power of indicators. The forecasting results suggest that models based on FX options are inferior to the random walk …

, predictable, and options appear calibrated to incorporate information about future jumps in all three markets. …