scholarly journals Empirical Performance of Option Pricing Models: Evidence from India

Author(s):  
Vipul Kumar Singh
Author(s):  
Przemyslaw S. Stilger ◽  
Ngoc Quynh Anh Nguyen ◽  
Tri Minh Nguyen

This paper examines the empirical performance of four stochastic volatility option pricing models: Heston, Heston[Formula: see text], Bates and Heston–Hull–White. To compare these models, we use individual stock options data from January 1996 to August 2014. The comparison is made with respect to pricing and hedging performance, implied volatility surface and risk-neutral return distribution characteristics, as well as performance across industries and time. We find that the Heston model outperforms the other models in terms of in-sample pricing, whereas Heston[Formula: see text] model outperforms the other models in terms of out-of-sample hedging. This suggests that taking jumps or stochastic interest rates into account does not improve the model performance after accounting for stochastic volatility. We also find that the model performance deteriorates during the crises as well as when the implied volatility surface is steep in the maturity or strike dimension.


1997 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 2003-2049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gurdip Bakshi ◽  
Charles Cao ◽  
Zhiwu Chen

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Billy Amzal ◽  
Yonathan Ebguy ◽  
Sebastien Roland

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