The implied volatility smirk

DOI10.1080/14697680601173444MaRDI QIDQ3502188zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jin E. Zhang, Yi Xiang

Publication date 22 May 2008

Published in Quantitative Finance (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/10722/85541

zbMATH Keywords

implied volatility smirkoption pricingrisk-neutral skewness and excess kurtosisterm structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Microeconomic theory (price theory and economic markets) (91B24)

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• Implied volatility smoothing at COVID-19 times
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