The Importance of the Loss Function in Option Valuation
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- Christoffersen, Peter & Jacobs, Kris, 2004. "The importance of the loss function in option valuation," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 72(2), pages 291-318, May.
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Keywords
implied volatility functions; valuation errors; out-of-sample forecasting; parameter stability; fonctions de volatilité implicite; évaluation des erreurs; prévision hors échantillon; stabilité des paramètres;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
- G13 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing
- C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CFN-2003-09-08 (Corporate Finance)
- NEP-ETS-2003-09-08 (Econometric Time Series)
- NEP-FMK-2003-09-08 (Financial Markets)
- NEP-RMG-2003-09-08 (Risk Management)
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