Essays about: "Stock market volatility and option pricing"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words Stock market volatility and option pricing.
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1. LEAST -SQUARE MONTE CARLO BASED OPTION PRICING OF EUROPEAN AND BERMUDAN STOCK INDEX OPTIONS
University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistikAbstract : On the financial markets, there are a large number of financial instruments. Two of these instruments is the European and Bermudan option, where the Bermudan option can be seen as a discrete version of the American option. Meaning, if one can price the Bermudan option one can also estimate the price of an American option. READ MORE
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2. Implied volatility with HJM–type Stochastic Volatility model
University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikationAbstract : In this thesis, we propose a new and simple approach of extending the single-factor Heston stochastic volatility model to a more flexible one in solving option pricing problems. In this approach, the volatility process for the underlying asset dynamics depends on the time to maturity of the option. READ MORE
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3. Option Pricing using Artificial Neural Networks
University essay from Lunds universitet/Beräkningsbiologi och biologisk fysik - Genomgår omorganisationAbstract : Neural networks have an increasingly important role in the financial market, by offering a solution to stationarity and non-linearity whilst also providing robustness and predictive power. Options and option pricing are a fundamental area of interest in the daily activities of investment banks, hedge funds and trading firms in the financial market. READ MORE
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4. Volatility Curves of Incomplete Markets
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för matematiska vetenskaperAbstract : The graph of the implied volatility of call options as a function of the strike price is called volatility curve. If the options market were perfectly described by the Black-Scholes model, the implied volatility would be independent of the strike price and thus the volatility curve would be a at horizontal line. READ MORE
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5. Extracting volatility smiles from historical spot data
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : The Black-Scholes model has been the fundamental framework for option pricing since its publication 1973, but it is known to have shortcomings. To correct for this, plenty of research in option pricing theory has been focused on calibrating a stochastic process to match asset behavior in the financial markets better than the geometric Brownian motion that Black-Scholes assume describe asset behaviour justly. READ MORE
