General Equilibrium and Risk Neutral Valuation Framework for Option Pricing with Mixture of Distributions

https://doi.org/10.3905/jod.2008.707210

Manchester Business School Working Paper

Posted: 14 Aug 2006

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Luiz Vitiello

University of Essex - Essex Business School

Ser-Huang Poon

Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester; Alan Turing Institute

Date Written: August 2006

Abstract

This paper develops a closed form risk-neutral valuation model for pricing European style options when the underlying has a mixture of transformed-normal distributions. Specifically, we introduce the mixture of g distributions, which contains the mixture of normal and lognormal distributions as a special case. The risk neutral valuation relation is developed following Rubinstein (1976), Brennan (1979) and Camara (2003). Our model encompasses several well known models, and is particularly useful for pricing derivatives written on illiquid assets, and derivatives that are themselves illiquid.

Keywords: General Equilibrium, G Distribution, Mixture of Distributions, Risk Neutral Valuation Relationship, Pricing Kernel, Option Pricing

JEL Classification: G12, G13, G22

Suggested Citation

Vitiello, Luiz and Poon, Ser-Huang, General Equilibrium and Risk Neutral Valuation Framework for Option Pricing with Mixture of Distributions (August 2006). https://doi.org/10.3905/jod.2008.707210, Manchester Business School Working Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=923964 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.923964

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