Syllabus[1]

 

DAY 1: Aug 26, 2005

 

Session 1: 9.30-11 am

 

Topic: Option Pricing with Jumps and Stochastic Volatility

 

Suggested Readings:

 

Das, S. R., and R. K. Sundaram, 1999, “Of smiles and smirks: A term structure

        Perspective “, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 34, 211-239.

Hull, J. and A. White "The pricing of options on assets with stochastic volatilities,"

Journal of Finance, volume 42 (June 1987), pages 281–300.

Heston, S, 1993, “A closed form solution with options with Stochastic volatility,

With applications to bond and currency markets”, Review of Financial Studies, 6, 327-343

Duffie, D., K. Singleton, and J. Pan, 2000, “Transform analysis and asset pricing for

affine jump-diffusions”, Econometrica 68, 1343-1376.

Eraker, B., M. Johannes, and N. Polson, 2003, “The impact of jumps in volatility and returns”, Journal of Finance 58, 1269-1300.

Bakshi, Gurdip, Charles Cao, and  Zhiwu Chen, 1997, "Empirical Performance of Alternative Option Pricing Models ,”  Journal of Finance 52, No. 5, 2003-2049.

Bates, D. S., 1991, “The crash of ’87: Was it expected?  The evidence from options markets”, Journal of Finance 46, 1009-1044.

Bates, D. S., 1996a, “Jumps and stochastic volatility: exchange rate processes implicit

in PHLX deutsche mark options”, Review of Financial Studies 9, 69-107.

Bates, D. S., 1996b, “Testing option pricing models”, in G. S. Maddala, C. R. Rao, eds., Statistical Methods in Finance, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 567-611.

Bates, D. S., 2000, “Post-’87 crash fears in the S&P 500 futures option market”, Journal of Econometrics 94, 181-238.

Pan, J., 2002, “The jump-risk premia implicit in options: Evidence from an integrated

time-series study”, Journal of Financial Economics 63, 3-50.

Bakshi, Gurdip, Nikunj Kapadia and Dilip Madan, 1999, “Pricing Stock Return 

Characteristics, Skew Laws, and Differential Pricing of Individual Equity

Options”,Review of Financial Studies (Winter 2003) 101-143.

Bakshi, Gurdip and Nikunj Kapadia, 2003, “Delta Hedged Gains and the Negative Volatility Risk Premium”, Review of Financial Studies 16 (Summer 2003), 527-566.

 

Session 2: 11.30 am to 1 pm

 

Topic: GARCH  Option Pricing Models

 

Suggested Readings:

JC Duan, "The GARCH Option Pricing Model", Mathematical Finance, 5(1), 1995, pp.

13-32

JC Duan, G. Gauthier, C. Sasserville and J.G. Simonato, "Approximating American

Option Prices in the GARCH Framework", Journal of Futures Markets, 23(10),

2003, pp. 915-929

JC Duan, P. Ritchken and Z. Sun, "Approximating GARCH-Jump Models, Jump-

Diffusion Processes, and Option Pricing", Forthcoming, Mathematical Finance, 2005

JC Duan and H. Zhang, "Pricing Hang Seng Index Options around the Asian Financial

Crisis - A GARCH Approach", Journal of Banking and Finance, 25(11), 2001, pp. 1989-2014

Ritchken, P and R Trevor “Option Pricing Under GARCH and Stochastic Volatility”, 

Journal of Finance, 1999, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 377-402.

Heston, S and S Nandi, “A closed-form GARCH option valuation model”, Review of

Financial Studies”,  2000; 13, 585-625

Christoffersen. P and  K, Jacobs (2004), “Which Volatility Model for Option

Valuation?”, Management Science.

Christoffersen, P., S. Heston and K. Jacobs, 2005, “Option Valuation with Conditional

Skewness”,  Journal Of Econometrics, forthcoming

Christoffersen. P and K. Jacobs, “The Importance of the Loss Function in Option

Valuation”. Journal of Financial Economics, 2004, Volume 72, 291-318.

Engle, Robert and C. Mustafa, “Implied ARCH Models from Options Prices”, Journal of

Econometrics 52 (1992): 289-311.

Dennis Patrick and S.Mayhew, “Risk Neutral Skewness: Evidence from Stock Options”, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 37, 3, 471-493.

Kalimipalli, M  and R. Sivakumar, “Does Skewness Matter? Evidence from Index Options Market “. Working paper.

 

 

CASE TO BE HANDED OUT TO THE CLASS AT THE END OF SESSION 2


 

DAY  2: Aug 27, 2005

 

Session 3: 9-11 am

 

Implied Volatility Functions and Implied Volatility tests

 

Suggested Readings:

 

Dumas, B., J. Fleming, and R. E. Whaley, 1997, “Implied volatility functions: Empirical

        Tests”, Journal of Finance 53, 2059-2106.

Suo, W and  J. Hull, “A Methodology for Assessing Model Risk and its Application to

the Implied Volatility Function Model”, Journal of Financial and Quantitative

Analysis, Vol. 37, No. 2, June 2002, pp.297-318

Jorion, P. 1995, “Predicting Volatility in the Foreign Exchange Market”, Journal of

Finance (June 1995).

Blair, B. J., S. Poon, and S. J. Taylor, 2001, “Forecasting S&P100 volatility: The

Incremental information content of implied volatilities and high-frequency index returns”, Journal of Econometrics 105, 5-26.

Christensen, B.J. and N.R. Prabhala, 1998, “The relation between implied and realized

        Volatility”, Journal of Financial Economics 50, 125-150.

Fleming, J, 1998, “The quality of Market volatility forecasts implied by S & P 100 index

        option prices”, Journal of Empirical Finance, 5,317-345.

Pong, S., M. B. Shackleton, S. J. Taylor and X. Xu, 2002, “Forecasting sterling/dollar

volatility: A comparison of implied volatilities and AR(FI)MA models”, Working paper, FEN

Poteshman, A. M., 2000, “Forecasting future volatility from option prices”, Working

paper,       FEN

Jiang, G.J. and Y.S. Tian, 2005, “Model free implied volatility and it information

content”, Review of Financial Studies.

Harvey, C. R. and R. E..Whaley, 1992, “Market volatiltiy prediction and the efficiency of

                the S&P 100 index option market”, Journal of Financial Economics 30, 43-73.

Coval, J. D., and T. Shumway, 2001, “Expected option returns”, Journal of Finance 56,

983-1009.

Neely, C. J., 2004, “Forecasting foreign exchange volatility:  Why is implied volatility

        biased and inefficient?  And does it matter?”, Federal Reserve  Bank of St.Louis

Working paper.

Koopman, S. J., B. Jungbacker, and E. Hol, 2005, “Forecasting daily variability of the

        S&P 100 stock index using historical, realized and implied volatility measures”,

Journal of Empirical Finance.

        Chan, W, M. Kalimipalli, R.Sivakumar, “The Economic Value of Realized Volatility:

                Evidence from Index Options Market”, Working Paper.

Bollerslev, T., and H. O. Mikkelsen, 1996, “Modeling and pricing long memory in stock

market volatility”, Journal of Econometrics 73, 151-184.

Bakshi, Gurdip,  Charles Cao, and  Zhiwu Chen, 1997, “Pricing and Hedging Long-Term

Options”  Journal of Econometrics  94, 2000, 277-318.

Taylor, S, 2000, “Consequences for Option Pricing of a Long Memory in Volatility”,

Working paper, Lancaster University.

Session 4:  11.30 am to 12.30 pm

 

 

CASE DISCUSSION WITH THE CLASS PARTICIPATION

 

 

 

 



[1]  A useful text book reference would be  “Options  and Futures and other derivatives”, Hull, John, 4th  edition