scholarly journals Empirical Performance of Black-Scholes and GARCH Option Pricing Models during Turbulent Times: The Indian Evidence

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Aparna Bhat ◽  
Kirti Arekar
Keyword(s):  
Option Pricing ◽  
Closed Form Solution ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Pricing Model ◽  
Currency Options ◽  
Pricing Models ◽  
Pricing Options ◽  
Volatility Model ◽  
Black Scholes ◽  
Option Pricing Model

Exchange-traded currency options are a recent innovation in the Indian financial market and their pricing is as yet unexplored. The objective of this research paper is to empirically compare the pricing performance of two well-known option pricing models – the Black-Scholes-Merton Option Pricing Model (BSM) and Duan’s NGARCH option pricing model – for pricing exchange-traded currency options on the US dollar-Indian rupee during a recent turbulent period. The BSM is known to systematically misprice options on the same underlying asset but with different strike prices and maturities resulting in the phenomenon of the ‘volatility smile’. This bias of the BSM results from its assumption of a constant volatility over the option’s life. The NGARCH option pricing model developed by Duan is an attempt to incorporate time-varying volatility in pricing options. It is a deterministic volatility model which has no closed-form solution and therefore requires numerical techniques for evaluation. In this paper we have compared the pricing performance and examined the pricing bias of both models during a recent period of volatility in the Indian foreign exchange market. Contrary to our expectations the pricing performance of the more sophisticated NGARCH pricing model is inferior to that of the relatively simple BSM model. However orthogonality tests demonstrate that the NGARCH model is free of the strike price and maturity biases associated with the BSM. We conclude that the deterministic BSM does a better job of pricing options than the more advanced time-varying volatility model based on GARCH.

Empirical Performance of the Constant Elasticity Variance Option Pricing Model

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 177-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ren-Raw Chen ◽  
Cheng-Few Lee ◽  
Han-Hsing Lee
Keyword(s):  
Option Pricing ◽  
Stochastic Volatility ◽  
Stochastic Volatility Model ◽  
Pricing Model ◽  
Implementation Cost ◽  
Pricing Models ◽  
Cev Model ◽  
Constant Elasticity ◽  
Volatility Model ◽  
Option Pricing Model

In this essay, we empirically test the Constant–Elasticity-of-Variance (CEV) option pricing model by Cox (1975, 1996 ) and Cox and Ross (1976), and compare the performances of the CEV and alternative option pricing models, mainly the stochastic volatility model, in terms of European option pricing and cost-accuracy based analysis of their numerical procedures. In European-style option pricing, we have tested the empirical pricing performance of the CEV model and compared the results with those by Bakshi et al. (1997). The CEV model, introducing only one more parameter compared with Black-Scholes formula, improves the performance notably in all of the tests of in-sample, out-of-sample and the stability of implied volatility. Furthermore, with a much simpler model, the CEV model can still perform better than the stochastic volatility model in short term and out-of-the-money categories. When applied to American option pricing, high-dimensional lattice models are prohibitively expensive. Our numerical experiments clearly show that the CEV model performs much better in terms of the speed of convergence to its closed form solution, while the implementation cost of the stochastic volatility model is too high and practically infeasible for empirical work. In summary, with a much less implementation cost and faster computational speed, the CEV option pricing model could be a better candidate than more complex option pricing models, especially when one wants to apply the CEV process for pricing more complicated path-dependent options or credit risk models.

scholarly journals Nonparametric Estimation of Fractional Option Pricing Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Qing Li ◽  
Songlin Liu ◽  
Misi Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Option Pricing ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Option Price ◽  
Integral Function ◽  
The State ◽  
Pricing Model ◽  
State Price ◽  
Black Scholes ◽  
Option Pricing Model ◽  
State Price Density

The establishment of the fractional Black–Scholes option pricing model is under a major condition with the normal distribution for the state price density (SPD) function. However, the fractional Brownian motion is deemed to not be martingale with a long memory effect of the underlying asset, so that the estimation of the state price density (SPD) function is far from simple. This paper proposes a convenient approach to get the fractional option pricing model by changing variables. Further, the option price is transformed as the integral function of the cumulative density function (CDF), so it is not necessary to estimate the distribution function individually by complex approaches. Finally, it encourages to estimate the fractional option pricing model by the way of nonparametric regression and makes empirical analysis with the traded 50 ETF option data in Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE).

Predicting the stock price of frontier markets using machine learning and modified Black–Scholes Option pricing model

2020 ◽  
Vol 555 ◽  
pp. 124444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reaz Chowdhury ◽  
M.R.C. Mahdy ◽  
Tanisha Nourin Alam ◽  
Golam Dastegir Al Quaderi ◽  
M. Arifur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Option Pricing ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Pricing Model ◽  
Black Scholes ◽  
Option Pricing Model

Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlozar T. Rachev ◽  
Christian Menn ◽  
Frank J. Fabozzi
Keyword(s):  
Option Pricing ◽  
Pricing Model ◽  
Black Scholes ◽  
Option Pricing Model
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