Implied volatility explosions: European calls and implied volatilities close to expiry in exponential Lévy models
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We examine the small expiry behaviour of the price of call options in models of exponential Lévy type. In most cases of interest, it turns out that E ( (Sτ −K) ) − (S0 −K) ∼ { τ ∫ R (S0e x −K)+ ν(dx), S0 < K, τ ∫ R (K − S0e) ν(dx), S0 > K, as τ → 0+, i.e. as time to expiry goes to zero. (We have written ν for the Lévy measure of the driving Lévy noise.) In “complete generality”, however, we can say only that E ( (Sτ −K) ) − (S0 −K) = O(τ) as τ → 0+. Using our results on the behaviour of call options close to expiry we show that implied volatility explodes as τ → 0+ in “most” exponential Lévy models. Attention is restricted to calls and implied volatilities that are not at-themoney, i.e. S0 6= K.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008