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Smiles, Bid-ask Spreads and Option pricing

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URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10016/7112
ISSN: 1354-7798 (print)
ISSN: 1468-036X (online)
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2001
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Given the evidence provided by Longstaff (1995), and Peña, Rubio and Serna (1999) a serious candidate to explain the pronounced pattern of volatility estimates across exercise prices might be related to liquidity costs. Using all calls and puts transacted between 16:00 and 16:45 on the Spanish IBEX‐35 index futures from January 1994 to October 1998 we extend previous papers to study the influence of liquidity costs, as proxied by the relative bid‐ask spread, on the pricing of options. Surprisingly, alternative parametric option pricing models incorporating the bid‐ask spread seem to perform poorly relative to Black‐Scholes.
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smiles, bid-ask spread, implied volatility function, option pricing
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European Financial Management, 2001, vol. 7, nº 3, p.351-374.
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