). This transformation adjusts the moneyness coordinate of the implied volatility smile in an attempt to remove the … indicate that in a statistical sense there remains a possibility that the implied volatility smiles are still not the same … utilizes the dynamic structure of implied volatility surface allowing out-of-sample forecasting and information on unleveraged …

this calibration risk in a time series of DAX implied volatility surfaces from April 2003 to March 2004. We analyze in the … functional. Moreover, we determine the model risk of these two stochastic volatility models for the time series and consider its …

interpreted as volatility, skewness and tail factors.We also find evidence for term structure variation. …

. The weather derivative market is therefore incomplete. This paper implements a pricing methodology for weather derivatives …

. The spatial derivative price distribution involves a risk premium. We examine functional principal components of …

On the temperature derivative market, modeling temperature volatility is an important issue for pricing and hedging. In … describe the volatility process well. Therefore, we consider a local adaptive modeling approach to find at each time point, an … optimal smoothing parameter to locally estimate the seasonality and volatility. Our approach provides a more flexible and …