We develop a discrete-time affine stochastic volatility model with time-varying conditional skewness (SVS). Importantly, we disentangle the dynamics of conditional volatility and conditional skewness ...

Affine processes provide a versatile framework for modelling complex financial phenomena, ranging from interest rate dynamics to credit risk and beyond. Their defining characteristic is the affine, or ...

Dominique Bang, head of interest rate vanilla analytics at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London, joined us in our studio to talk about his work on a local stochastic volatility model. While the ...

A single parameter, termed the mixing fraction, is used to calibrate current localstochastic volatility (LSV) models to traded exotic prices as well as vanilla options. This single parameter has been ...

This paper generalizes the standard homoscedastic macro-finance model by allowing for stochastic volatility, using the "square root" specification of the mainstream finance literature. Empirically, ...

Testing several approaches for implied volatility modeling and forecasting. Design/methodology/approach – Comparative ...