This paper fulfills the lack of option pricing empirical studies devoted to the French market and is also the first paper that brings a comparison between the Heston (1993) closed-form solution model and the Hull and White (1988) model, built in a series expansion form. The empirical study is...

We study the modeling of large data sets of high frequency returns using a long memory stochastic volatility (LMSV) model. Issues pertaining to estimation and forecasting of large datasets using the LMSV model are studied in detail. Furthermore, a new method of de-seasonalizing the volatility in...

In this paper we explore the forecasting value of historical volatility (extracted from daily return series), of implied volatility (extracted from option pricing data) and of realised volatility (computed as the sum of squared high frequency returns within a day). First we consider unobserved...