Volatility Smiles

Carl Chiarella*, Xue Zhong He, Christina Sklibosios Nikitopoulos

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

It is commonly observed across many underlying assets that the implied volatility of the Black Scholes model varies across exercise price and time-to-maturity and has a pattern known as the volatility smile. In this chapter, we first address the volatility smile using the stochastic volatility models which may underestimate the size of the smile. We then develop an approach to calibrate the smile by choosing the volatility function as a deterministic function of the underlying asset price and time so as to fit the model option price to the observed volatility smile.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages389-401
Number of pages13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameDynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance
Volume21
ISSN (Print)1566-0419
ISSN (Electronic)2363-8370

Keywords

  • Implied Volatility
  • Option Price
  • Stochastic Volatility
  • Stochastic Volatility Model
  • Strike Price

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