Interpreting the Volatility Smile: An Examination of the Information Content of Option Prices
Preprint
- 1 January 2001
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
This paper evaluates how useful the information contained in options prices is for predicting future price movements of the underlying assets. We develop anKeywords
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