The Heston model stands out from the class of stochastic volatility (SV) models mainly for two reasons. Firstly, the … process for the volatility is nonnegative and mean-reverting, which is what we observe in the markets. Secondly, there exists …. -- Heston model ; vanilla option ; stochastic volatility ; Monte Carlo simulation ; Feller condition ; option pricing with FFT …

Option prices seem to behave in ways inconsistent with the Black-Scholes model. Implied volatility varies with the … strike price in a parabolic shape that is often called the volatility 'smile.' My objective in this paper is to identify … promising in explaining the volatility smile. Applying this to the ERM data, I find that the probability of a devaluation in the …

This paper analyses deviations in yen-dollar cross-currency swap markets between 2007 and 2017. Using weekly … balance sheet policies, relative corporate bond market performance, and general market volatility. Overall, the impulse …

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 …