This paper extends the moment matching market implied calibration procedure to Markov models with piecewise constant parameters between successive quoted option maturities. The Markov property allows us to determine the parameter set of each subprocess by a bootstrapping moment matching...

Joint densities for a sequential pair of returns with weak autocorrelation and strong correlation in squared returns are formulated. The marginal return densities are either variance gamma or bilateral gamma. Two dimensional matching of empirical characteristic functions to its theoretical...

Noting that risk neutral distributions are estimated by minimizing the squared deviations between market and model option prices we consider using option payoff moments in estimating distributional parameters from a sample of observations. It is observed, in particular when compared to maximum...