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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 …
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procedure. I parameterize the underlying exchange rate process as a mixture of log-normals, price the options using Monte Carlo …
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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 …
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The Gram-Charlier expansion, where skewness and kurtosis directly appear as parameters, has become popular in Finance …
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truncated Gram-Charlier series where skewness and kurtosis directly appear as parameters. However, the existing literature is …
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The market for Adverse Development Cover and Loss Portfolio Transfer has been growing in the past few years. Despite this growth, reinsurers are still struggling to define a standard method for pricing such covers. In this context, this article aims at providing an innovative method for pricing...
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We use Malliavin calculus and the Clark-Ocone formula to derive the hedging strategy of an arithmetic Asian Call option in general terms. Furthermore we derive an expression for the density of the integral over time of a geometric Brownian motion, which allows us to express hedging strategy and...
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Recent developments allow a nonparametric separation of the continuous sample path component and the jump component of realized volatility. The jump component has very different time series properties than the continuous component, and accounting for this allows improved forecasting of future...
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