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-stochastic volatility (LSV) model. Despite their complexity, autocallable structured notes are the most traded equity-linked exotic …, the commonly-used local volatility (LV) model is overly simplified for pricing and risk management. Given its ability to … match the implied volatility smile and reproduce its realistic dynamics, the LSV model is, in contrast, better suited for …
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Using the joint characteristic function of equity price and state variables, we can price contingent claims on both equity and VIX consistently. Based on linear approximation of jump size, we show that one factor models implies all VIX future contract of different maturities are perfectly...
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We study the real-time characteristics and drivers of jumps in option prices. To this end, we employ high frequency data from the 24-hour E-mini S&P 500 options market. We find that option prices do not jump simultaneously across strikes and maturities and are uncorrelated with jumps in the...
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, seasonalities, and stochastic volatility. In particular, we investigate the pricing procedures for electricity swaps and options in …
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We study the term structure of variance (total risk), systematic and idiosyncratic risk. Consistent with the expectations hypothesis, we find that, for the entire market, the slope of the term structure of variance is mainly informative about the path of future variance. Thus, there is little...
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average absolute difference between historical and implied volatility increases with stock illiquidity. This pattern …
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We propose an approach to the valuation of payoffs in general semimartingale models of financial markets where prices are nonnegative. Each asset price can hit 0; we only exclude that this ever happens simultaneously for all assets. We start from two simple, economically motivated axioms, namely...
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prices, which translates into skew and smile patterns for implied volatility curves even under constant volatilities … the market. collateral requirements, funding costs, volatility smile, option pricing …
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dramatically and permanently changed the shape of the implied volatility curve for equity index options. Here, we propose a general …. Further, the model generates a steep shift in the implied volatility 'smirk' for S&P 500 options after the 1987 crash. This … integrated. -- Volatility Smile ; Volatility Smirk ; Implied Volatility ; Option Pricing ; Portfolio Insurance ; Market Risk …
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We study whether prices of traded options contain information about future extreme market events. Our option-implied conditional expectation of market loss due to tail events, or tail loss measure, predicts future market returns, magnitude, and probability of the market crashes, beyond and above...
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