Christoffersen, Peter; Heston, Steven; Jacobs, Kris - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2009
State-of-the-art stochastic volatility models generate a "volatility smirk" that explains why out-of-the-money index … fluctuate largely independently. While single-factor stochastic volatility models can capture the slope of the smirk, they … using a two-factor stochastic volatility model. Because the factors have distinct correlations with market returns, and …