This research explores upside and downside jumps in the dynamic processes of three rates: domestic interest rates, foreign interest rates, and exchange rates. To fill the gap between the asymmetric jump in the currency market and the current models, a correlated asymmetric jump model is proposed...

Wechselkurse werden im Euro-Raum in der sogenannten Mengennotierung festgestellt und kommuniziert. In der Folge gibt es im Umgang mit Devisenoptionen ein erhebliches Potential für Missverständnisse beziehungsweise Fehler, zumindest aber Irritationen bei Personen, die nicht alltäglich...

Technological innovation has changed the financial market significantly with the increasing application of high-frequency data in research and practice. This study examines the performance of intraday implied volatility (IV) in estimating currency options prices. Options quotations at a...

The currency options markets, both the dollar denominated options markets and the cross-currency options markets, carry important economic information about the evolution of exchange rates and the pricing of risk. However, it is challenging to integrate all this information together. This paper...

Does the primacy of the U.S. dollar affect the pricing of risks in the currency options market? Our findings rely on a daily option panel of 15 currencies. This analysis reveals that (i) put risk premiums are negative, implying across-the-board interest in hedging foreign currency depreciations;...

In this paper, we consider the Heston-CIR model with Levy process for pricing in the foreign exchange (FX) market by providing a new formula that better fits the distribution of prices. To do that, first, we study the existence and uniqueness of the solution to this model. Second, we examine the...

This paper uses currency option data from the BMF, the Commodities and Futures exchange in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to investigate market expectations on the Brazilian Real-U.S. dollar exchange rate from October 1994 through July 1997. Using options data, we derive implied probability density...

This paper extends the Krugman target zone model by including a realignment mechanism. Various properties of that realignment mechanism are discussed. The movement of the exchange rate is governed both by a Wiener process on fundamental and by a Poisson jump process with endogenous realignment...

This paper analyzes whether and how central banks can use currency options to lower exchange rate volatility and maintain (implicit) target zones in foreign exchange markets. It argues that selling rather than buying options will result in market makers dynamically hedging their long option...

This paper focuses on changes in the currency options market's assessment of likely future exchange rate developments around the times of official interventions in the JPY/USD exchange rate. We estimate the options-implied risk-neutral density functions (RNDs) using daily OTC quotes for options...

This study introduces the intraday implied volatility (IV) for pricing the Australian dollar (AUD) options. The IV is estimated using the at-the-money one-month, two-month, and three-month maturity AUD options traded in the opening, midday, and closing period of a trading day. The...

We develop a novel pricing strategy that approximates the value of an American option with exotic features through a portfolio of European options with different maturities. Among our findings, we show that: (i) our model is numerically robust in pricing plain vanilla American options; (ii) the...

This paper demonstrates that all of the currency options available to an independent Scotland come with the price tag of an austerity programme to the tune of £40bn. This is due to the need to accumulate foreign exchange reserves. So called Plan A – being part of a formal monetary union –...

This paper examines the cross-dynamics of volatility term structures implied by foreign exchange options. The data used in the empirical analysis consist of daily observations of implied volatilities for OTC options on the euro, Japanese yen, British pound, Swiss franc, and Canadian dollar,...

We compare option-implied correlation forecasts from a dataset consisting of over 10 years of daily data on over-the-counter (OTC) currency option prices to a set of return-based correlation measures and assess the relative quality of the correlation forecasts. We find that while the predictive...

Traditionally GPU and multi-core CPUs are used for task parallelism. In recent years the use of FPGA for Monte Carlo simulation had been researched. The strength of FPGA lies in the pipeline parallelism which can be beneficial not only for Monte Carlo simulations. In this paper we demonstrate...

Foreign exchange options (FXOs) can serve international financial managers in several ways. First, FXOs are essential to hedging “contingent” foreign exchange exposures – the kind of exposure which arises, for example, when a US contractor bids for a contract denominated in a foreign...

Some expansion methods have been proposed for approximately pricing options which has no exact closed formula. Benhamou et al. (2010) presents the smart expansion method that directly expands the expectation value of payoff function with respect to the volatility of volatility, then uses it to...

This dissertation consists of three papers referring to the pricing of insurance-linked securities, while a fourth one deals with investigating the dynamics of foreign exchange implied volatility and correlation surfaces. The first paper proposes a novel risk-neutral pricing approach for...

In this article we present a framework describing the world foreign exchange market in terms of differential geometry on graphs, that is, in terms of vector lattice bundles on graphs and connections on these bundles. This framework is based on the concept of financial equivalence introduced by...

The Emerging Market Economies are vulnerable to adverse external shocks. Such shocks cause excessive volatility in foreign exchange markets. Faced with high volatility, the central banks in EMEs often end up, in futility, depleting their foreign exchange reserves by selling dollars to restore...

We investigate how currency denomination a ects the price of credit risky securities of the same issuer. We focus on eurozone sovereign quanto spreads, i.e., di erences in credit default swap (CDS) premiums denominated in U.S. dollar and Euro of the same reference entity. Quanto spreads of...

Chapter 1. Introduction of Thesis -- Chapter 2. Literature Review -- Chapter 3. Methodology and Data -- Chapter 4. Implied Volatility Forecasting Realized Volatility -- Chapter 5. Implied Volatility Estimating Currency Options Price -- Chapter 6. Conclusion of Thesis.