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Modelling FX smile : from stochastic volatility to skewness
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Pricing and Inference with Mixtures of Conditionally Normal Processes.
We consider the problems of derivative pricing and inference when the stochastic discount factor has an exponential-affine form and the geometric return of the underlying asset has a dynamics characterized by a mixture of conditionally Normal processes. We consider both the static case in which the underlying process is a white noise distributed as a mixture of Gaussian distributions (including extreme risks and jump diffusions) and the dynamic case in which the underlying process is conditionally distributed as a mixture of Gaussian laws. Semi-parametric, non parametric and Switching Regime situations are also considered. In all cases, the risk-neutral processes and explicit pricing formulas are obtained.Derivative Pricing ; Stochastic Discount Factor ; Implied Volatility, Mixture of Normal Distributions ; Mixture of Conditionally Normal Processes ; Nonparametric Kernel Estimation ; Mixed-Normal GARCH Processes ; Switching Regime Models.
Option pricing with non-Gaussian scaling and infinite-state switching volatility
Volatility clustering, long-range dependence, and non-Gaussian scaling are
stylized facts of financial assets dynamics. They are ignored in the Black &
Scholes framework, but have a relevant impact on the pricing of options written
on financial assets. Using a recent model for market dynamics which adequately
captures the above stylized facts, we derive closed form equations for option
pricing, obtaining the Black & Scholes as a special case. By applying our
pricing equations to a major equity index option dataset, we show that
inclusion of stylized features in financial modeling moves derivative prices
about 30% closer to the market values without the need of calibrating models
parameters on available derivative prices.Comment: Revised version. 31 pages, 4 figure
The History of the Quantitative Methods in Finance Conference Series. 1992-2007
This report charts the history of the Quantitative Methods in Finance (QMF) conference from its beginning in 1993 to the 15th conference in 2007. It lists alphabetically the 1037 speakers who presented at all 15 conferences and the titles of their papers.
Empirical Pricing Kernels and Investor Preferences
This paper analyzes empirical market utility functions and pricing kernels derived from the DAX and DAX option data for three market regimes. A consistent parametric framework of stochastic volatility is used. All empirical market utility functions show a region of risk proclivity that is reproduced by adopting the hypothesis of heterogeneous individual investors whose utility functions have a switching point between bullish and bearish attitudes. The inverse problem of finding the distribution of individual switching points is formulated in the space of stock returns by discretization as a quadratic optimization problem. The resulting distributions vary over time and correspond to different market regimes.Utility function, Pricing Kernel, Behavioral Finance, Risk Aversion, Risk Proclivity, Heston model.
Interest rate models with Markov chains
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