THE BEHAVIOR OF THE IMPLIED VOLATILITY SURFACE: EVIDENCE FROM CRUDE OIL FUTURES OPTIONS

Amine Bouden
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Amine Bouden: University of Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, ERMES, CNRS, 12 Place Panthéon, 75005 Paris, France

Chapter 8 in Risk Management and Value:Valuation and Asset Pricing, 2008, pp 151-175 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractIn this chapter, I investigate implied volatility surface patterns for call options on crude oil futures. Instead of studying the power of the large number of explanatory factors inherent in oil markets, I focus on the common characteristics of option prices. By using quadratic implied volatility functions (IVFs), I aim to establish a mapping from implied volatilities to the option's intrinsic characteristics, i.e. moneyness and time to expiration, and to test the capacity of these functions to provide a good forecast of option prices. I found that the profile of crude oil implied volatility is too complex to be fully explained by IVFs. The main aim to the chapter is to perform an econometric explanatory analysis on a high volatile market, the petroleum market.

Keywords: Risk; Value; Management; Derivatives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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