Among the underlying assumptions of the Black-Scholes option pricing model, those of a fixed volatility of the underlying asset and of a constant short-term riskless interest rate, cause the largest empirical biases. Only recently has attention been paid to the simultaneous effects of the stochastic nature of both variables on the pricing of options. This paper has tried to estimate the effects of a stochastic volatility and a stochastic interest rate in the Spanish option market. A discrete approach was used. Symmetric and asymmetric GARCH models were tried. The presence of in-the-mean and seasonality effects was allowed. The stochastic processes of the MIBOR90, a Spanish short-term interest rate, from March 19, 1990 to May 31, 1994 and of the volatility of the returns of the most important Spanish stock index (IBEX-35) from October 1, 1987 to January 20, 1994, were estimated. These estimators were used on pricing Call options on the stock index, from November 30, 1993 to May 30, 1994. Hull-White and Amin-Ng pricing formulas were used. These prices were compared with actual prices and with those derived from the Black-Scholes formula, trying to detect the biases reported previously in the literature. Whereas the conditional variance of the MIBOR90 interest rate seemed to be free of ARCH effects, an asymmetric GARCH with in-the-mean and seasonality effects and some evidence of persistence in variance (IEGARCH(1,2)-M-S) was found to be the model that best represent the behavior of the stochastic volatility of the IBEX-35 stock returns. All the biases reported previously in the literature were found. All the formulas overpriced the options in Near-the-Money case and underpriced the options otherwise. Furthermore, in most option trading, Black-Scholes overpriced the options and, because of the time-to-maturity effect, implied volatility computed from the Black-Scholes formula, underestimated the actual volatility.
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