Volatility Mean Reversion and the Market Price of Volatility Risk

Authors
Publication date 2001
Book title Proceedings of the International Conference on Modelling and Forecasting Financial Volatility
Publisher Perth: The University of Western Australia
Organisations
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
Abstract This paper analyzes sources of derivative pricing errors in a stochastic volatility model estimated on stock return data. It is shown that such pricing errors may reflect the existence of a market price of volatility risk, but also may be caused by estimation errors due to a slow mean reversion in the volatility process. These issues are investigated empirically using asset return and option price data on the Dutch AEX index.
Document type Conference contribution
Published at http://www1.fee.uva.nl/pp/bin/24fulltext.pdf
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