Option Pricing with Asymmetric Heteroskedastic Normal Mixture Models

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 Last revised: 15 Nov 2010

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J. V. K. Rombouts

HEC Montreal; Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE); Centre interuniversitaire sur le risque, les politiques économiques et l'emploi (CIRPÉE); Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organization (CIRANO)

Lars Stentoft

Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario; Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organization (CIRANO); Aarhus University - CREATES

Date Written: September 24, 2010

Abstract

This paper uses asymmetric heteroskedastic normal mixture models to fit return data and to price options. The models can be estimated straightforwardly by maximum likelihood, have high statistical fit when used on S&P 500 index return data, and allow for substantial negative skewness and time varying higher order moments of the risk neutral distribution. When forecasting out-of-sample a large set of index options between 1996 and 2009, substantial improvements are found compared to several benchmark models in terms of dollar losses and the ability to explain the smirk in implied volatilities. Overall, the dollar root mean squared error of the best performing benchmark component model is 39% larger than for the mixture model. When considering the recent financial crisis this difference increases to 69%.

Keywords: Asymmetric Heteroskedastic Models, Finite Mixture Models, Option Pricing

JEL Classification: C11, C15, C22, G13

Suggested Citation

Rombouts, Jeroen and Stentoft, Lars, Option Pricing with Asymmetric Heteroskedastic Normal Mixture Models (September 24, 2010). CIRANO - Scientific Publications No. 2010s-38, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1682110 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1682110

Jeroen Rombouts (Contact Author)

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Lars Stentoft

Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario ( email )

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Denmark

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