Explaining the Smile in Currency Options: Is it Anchoring?

Hammad Siddiqi

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Abstract: An anchoring adjusted currency option pricing formula is developed in which the risk of the underlying currency is used as a starting point which gets adjusted upwards to arrive at the currency call risk. Anchoring bias implies that such adjustments are insufficient. The new formula converges to the Garman-Kohlhagen formula in the absence of anchoring bias. Anchoring bias generates the implied volatility smile if investors hold heterogeneous exchange rate expectations.

Keywords: Anchoring; Implied Volatility; Currency Options; Behavioral Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G02 G12 G13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-04-08
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