Closed Form Option Pricing Under Generalized Hermite Expansions

15 Pages Posted: 5 Nov 2013 Last revised: 21 Mar 2018

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Gabriel G. Drimus

Institute of Banking and Finance, University of Zürich

Walter Farkas

University of Zurich - Department Finance; Swiss Finance Institute; ETH Zürich

Ciprian Necula

Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Department of Money and Banking

Anastasiia Sokko

University of Zurich, Department of Banking and Finance; Swiss Finance Institute

Date Written: October 5, 2013

Abstract

In this article, we generalize the classical Edgeworth series expansion used in the option pricing literature. We obtain a closed-form pricing formula for European options by employing a generalized Hermite expansion for the risk-neutral density. The main advantage of the generalized expansion is that it can be applied to heavy-tailed return distributions, a case for which the standard Edgeworth expansions are not suitable. We also show how the expansion coefficients can be inferred directly from market option prices.

Keywords: European options, generalized Hermite series expansion, calibration

JEL Classification: C63, G13

Suggested Citation

Drimus, Gabriel G. and Farkas, Walter and Necula, Ciprian and Sokko, Anastasiia, Closed Form Option Pricing Under Generalized Hermite Expansions (October 5, 2013). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2349868 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2349868

Gabriel G. Drimus

Institute of Banking and Finance, University of Zürich ( email )

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Walter Farkas

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Ciprian Necula (Contact Author)

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Anastasiia Sokko

University of Zurich, Department of Banking and Finance ( email )

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Zurich
Switzerland

Swiss Finance Institute ( email )

c/o University of Geneva
40, Bd du Pont-d'Arve
CH-1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland

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