scholarly journals The Black–Scholes model as a determinant of the implied volatility smile: A simulation study

2009 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianluca Vagnani
2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1and2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ms. Mamta Shah

The power of options lies in their versatility. It enables the investors to adjust position according to any situation that arises. Options can be speculative or conservative. This means investor can do everything from protecting a position from a decline to outright betting on the movement of a market or index. Options can enable the investor to buy a stock at a lower price, sell a stock at a higher price, or create additional income against a long or short stock position. One can also uses option strategies to profit from a movement in the price of the underlying asset regardless of market direction. the responsible act and safe thing to do. Options provide the same kind of safety net for trades and investments already committed, which is known as hedging. The research paper is based on Black Scholes Model. The study includes the Implied Volatility Test and Volatility Smile Test. This study also includes the solver available in MS Excel. This study is based on stock price of Reliance and Tata Motors.


2017 ◽  
Vol 04 (04) ◽  
pp. 1750047 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Li

Most of financial models, including the famous Black–Scholes–Merton options pricing model, rely upon the assumption that asset returns follow a normal distribution. However, this assumption is not justified by empirical data. To be more concrete, the empirical observations exhibit fat tails or heavy tails and implied volatilities against the strike prices demonstrate U-shaped curve resembling a smile, which is the famous volatility smile. In this paper we present a mean bound financial model and show that asset returns per time unit are Pareto distributed and assets are log Gamma distributed under this model. Based on this we study the sensitivity of the options prices to a change in underlying parameters, which are commonly called the Greeks, and derive options pricing formulas. Finally, we reveal the relation between correct volatility and implied volatility in Black–Scholes model and provide a mathematical explanation of volatility smile.


2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (08) ◽  
pp. 1323-1337
Author(s):  
DORJE C. BRODY ◽  
IRENE C. CONSTANTINOU ◽  
BERNHARD K. MEISTER

Every maturity-dependent derivative contract entails a term structure. For example, when the value of the portfolio consisting of a long position in a stock and a short position in a vanilla option is expressed in units of its instantaneous exercise value, the resulting quantity defines a discount function. Thus, the derivative of the discount function with respect to the time left until maturity defines a term structure density function, and the "hazard rate" associated with the discount function determines the forward rates for the vanilla option portfolio. The dynamics associated with these quantities are obtained in the complete market setting. In particular, one can model vanilla options based on the associated forward rates. The formulation based on forward rates for options extends the approach based on modeling the implied volatility process. As an illustrative example, the initial term structure of the Black–Scholes model is considered. It is shown in this example that the implied volatility smile has the effect of making the option forward rates homogeneous across different strikes.


Author(s):  
Tomas Björk

The chapter starts with a detailed discussion of the bank account in discrete and continuous time. The Black–Scholes model is then introduced, and using the principle of no arbitrage we study the problem of pricing an arbitrary financial derivative within this model. Using the classical delta hedging approach we derive the Black–Scholes PDE for the pricing problem and using Feynman–Kač we also derive the corresponding risk neutral valuation formula and discuss the connection to martingale measures. Some concrete examples are studied in detail and the Black–Scholes formula is derived. We also discuss forward and futures contracts, and we derive the Black-76 futures option formula. We finally discuss the concepts and roles of historic and implied volatility.


1998 ◽  
Vol 01 (04) ◽  
pp. 487-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Herzel

This paper proposes a simple modification of the Black–Scholes model by assuming that the volatility of the stock may jump at a random time τ from a value σa to a value σb. It shows that, if the market price of volatility risk is unknown, but constant, all contingent claims can be valued from the actual price C0, of some arbitrarily chosen "basis" option. Closed form solutions for the prices of European options as well as explicit formulas for vega and delta hedging are given. All such solutions only depend on σa, σb and C0. The prices generated by the model produce a "smile"-shaped curve of the implied volatility.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Yao Elikem Ayekple ◽  
Charles Kofi Tetteh ◽  
Prince Kwaku Fefemwole

Using market covered European call option prices, the Independence Metropolis-Hastings Sampler algorithm for estimating Implied volatility in option pricing was proposed. This algorithm has an acceptance criteria which facilitate accurate approximation of this volatility from an independent path in the Black Scholes Model, from a set of finite data observation from the stock market. Assuming the underlying asset indeed follow the geometric brownian motion, inverted version of the Black Scholes model was used to approximate this Implied Volatility which was not directly seen in the real market: for which the BS model assumes the volatility to be a constant. Moreover, it is demonstrated that, the Implied Volatility from the options market tends to overstate or understate the actual expectation of the market. In addition, a 3-month market Covered European call option data, from 30 different stock companies was acquired from Optionistic.Com, which was used to estimate the Implied volatility. This accurately approximate the actual expectation of the market with low standard errors ranging between 0.0035 to 0.0275.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
Didier Alain Njamen Njomen ◽  
Eric Djeutcha

In this paper, we emphasize the Black-Scholes equation using standard fractional Brownian motion BHwith the hurst index H ∈ [0,1]. N. Ciprian (Necula, C. (2002)) and Bright and Angela (Bright, O., Angela, I., & Chukwunezu (2014)) get the same formula for the evaluation of a Call and Put of a fractional European with the different approaches. We propose a formula by adapting the non-fractional Black-Scholes model using a λHfactor to evaluate the european option. The price of the option at time t ∈]0,T[ depends on λH(T − t), and the cost of the action St, but not only from t − T as in the classical model. At the end, we propose the formula giving the implied volatility of sensitivities of the option and indicators of the financial market.


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