Modeling volatility in foreign currency option pricing

This paper presents a general optimization framework to forecast put and call option prices by exploiting the volatility of the options prices. The approach is flexible in that different objective functions for predicting the underlying volatility can be modified and adapted in the proposed framewor...

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Main Authors: Hoque, Mohammed, Chan, Felix, Manzur, Meher
Format: Working Paper
Published: School of Economics and Finance, Curtin Business School 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10204
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author Hoque, Mohammed
Chan, Felix
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description This paper presents a general optimization framework to forecast put and call option prices by exploiting the volatility of the options prices. The approach is flexible in that different objective functions for predicting the underlying volatility can be modified and adapted in the proposed framework. The framework is implemented empirically for four major currencies, including Euro. The forecast performance of this framework is compared with the forecast performance of the Multiplicative Error Model (MEM) of implied volatility and the GARCH(1,1). The results indicate that the proposed framework is capable of producing reasonably accurate forecasts for put and call prices.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-102042017-01-30T11:17:24Z Modeling volatility in foreign currency option pricing Hoque, Mohammed Chan, Felix Manzur, Meher multiplicative error model implied volatility foreign currency options GARCH model optimal volatility This paper presents a general optimization framework to forecast put and call option prices by exploiting the volatility of the options prices. The approach is flexible in that different objective functions for predicting the underlying volatility can be modified and adapted in the proposed framework. The framework is implemented empirically for four major currencies, including Euro. The forecast performance of this framework is compared with the forecast performance of the Multiplicative Error Model (MEM) of implied volatility and the GARCH(1,1). The results indicate that the proposed framework is capable of producing reasonably accurate forecasts for put and call prices. 2008 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10204 School of Economics and Finance, Curtin Business School fulltext
spellingShingle multiplicative error model
implied volatility
foreign currency options
GARCH model
optimal volatility
Hoque, Mohammed
Chan, Felix
Manzur, Meher
Modeling volatility in foreign currency option pricing
title Modeling volatility in foreign currency option pricing
title_full Modeling volatility in foreign currency option pricing
title_fullStr Modeling volatility in foreign currency option pricing
title_full_unstemmed Modeling volatility in foreign currency option pricing
title_short Modeling volatility in foreign currency option pricing
title_sort modeling volatility in foreign currency option pricing
topic multiplicative error model
implied volatility
foreign currency options
GARCH model
optimal volatility
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10204