Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9551469 | Finance Research Letters | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
This article presents a simple “model-free” method for inferring deltas and gammas from implicit volatility patterns. An illustration indicates that Black-Scholes deltas and gammas are substantially biased in the presence of the sort of smirks and smiles evident in stock index options.
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Authors
David S. Bates,