This paper investigates the use, in practical financial problems, of the Mixed Tempered Stable distribution both in its univariate and multivariate formulation. In the univariate context, we study the dependence of a given coherent risk measure on the distribution parameters. The latter allows...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the ability of the Dynamic Variance Gamma model, recently proposed by Bellini and Mercuri (2010), to evaluate option prices on the S&P500 index. We also provide a simple relation between the Dynamic Variance Gamma model and the Vix index. We use this...