Discrete time option pricing with flexible volatility estimation

Wolfgang Härdle and Christian Hafner
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Wolfgang Härdle: Institut für Statistik und Ökonometrie; Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, Germany

No 1997047, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: By extending the GARCH option pricing model of Duan (1995) to more flexible volatility es- timation it is shown that the prices of out-of-the-money options strongly depend on volatility features such as asymmetry. Results are provided for the properties of the stationary pricing distribution in the case of a threshold GARCH model. For a stock index series with a pro- nounced leverage effect, simulated threshold GARCH option prices are substantially closer to observed market prices than the Black/Scholes and simulated GARCH prices.

Date: 1997-06-01
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