We study the skewness premium (SK) introduced by Bates [<italic>J. Finance</italic>, 1991, <bold>46</bold>(3), 1009-1044] in a general context using Lévy processes. Under a symmetry condition, Fajardo and Mordecki [<italic>Quant. Finance</italic>, 2006, <bold>6</bold>(3), 219-227] obtained that SK is given by Bates' <italic>x</italic>% rule. In this paper, we study SK...

The aim of this paper is to introduce the notion of symmetry in a Levy market. This notion appears as a particular case of a general known relation between prices of put and call options, of both the European and the American type, which is also reviewed in the paper, and that we call put-call...