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W-shaped implied volatility curves in a variance-gamma mixture model

Mathematical Finance 2022-09-30 v1 Probability

Abstract

In liquid option markets, W-shaped implied volatility curves have occasionally be observed. We show that such shapes can be reproduced in a mixture of two variance-gamma models. This is in contrast to lognormal models, where at least three different distributions have to be mixed in order to produce a W-shape, as recently shown by Glasserman and Pirjol.

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@article{arxiv.2209.14726,
  title  = {W-shaped implied volatility curves in a variance-gamma mixture model},
  author = {Martin Keller-Ressel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.14726},
  year   = {2022}
}

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12 pages

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