the pricing of European-style foreign currency options and for the volatility strike structure implicit in these contracts … is devoloped. The curvature of the volatility strike structure is explained by focusing attention on the expected … characteristic convex shape of volatility strike structures documented in the empirical literature. A volatility-based test for …

findings support the arguments of risk return tradeoff, volatility feedback and statistical balance. It is reasoned that the …

findings support the arguments of risk return tradeoff, volatility feedback and statistical balance. It is reasoned that the …

series from 21 international market indices, the findings support the predictions of the risk premium, volatility feedback … and statistical balance. However, little support is found for the short-memory-volatility-component risk premium. It is …

past domestic volatilities does not generally affect the mean and the volatility of the estimated thresholds. Specifically …, with the exception of the Italian market we find at least two volatility regimes, due to an asymmetric structure of … volatility as a function of bad and good domestic news. Moreover, in the majority of the series under scrutiny we also identify …