Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5084927 International Review of Financial Analysis 2014 8 Pages PDF
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a stochastic volatility model for option pricing that exhibits Lévy jump behavior. For this model, we derive the general formula for a European call option. A well known particular case of this class of models is the Bates model, for which the jumps are modeled by a compound Poisson process with normally distributed jumps. Alternatively, we turn our attention to infinite activity jumps produced by a tempered stable process. Then we empirically compare the estimated log-return probability density and the option prices produced from this model to both the Bates model and the Black-Scholes model. We find that the tempered stable jumps describe more precisely market prices than compound Poisson jumps assumed in the Bates model.
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