Smile dynamics -- a theory of the implied leverage effect

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2008-09-19

arxiv.org/abs/0809.3375v1

Economy

Quantitative Finance

Pricing of Securities

Submitted to Wilmott

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We study in details the skew of stock option smiles, which is induced by the so-called leverage effect on the underlying -- i.e. the correlation between past returns and future square returns. This naturally explains the anomalous dependence of the skew as a function of maturity of the option. The market cap dependence of the leverage effect is analyzed using a one-factor model. We show how this leverage correlation gives rise to a non-trivial smile dynamics, which turns out to be intermediate between the "sticky strike" and the "sticky delta" rules. Finally, we compare our result with stock option data, and find that option markets overestimate the leverage effect by a large factor, in particular for long dated options.

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