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Volatility Surfaces and Expected Option Returns
Philipp Höfler
cross-section of option returns / empirical asset pricingResource overview

Volatility Surfaces and Expected Option Returns

Paper2025

by Philipp Höfler

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cross-section of option returnsempirical asset pricingequity optionsexpected returnsimplied volatility surfaceoption pricingoption returnsrisk premiaterm structure of volatilityvolatility skewvolatility smile

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Suggested foundations for volatility models and surfaces and options and derivatives pricing. Specialist prerequisites vary by paper.

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  1. Stochastic Processes, Brownian Motion and Itô's Lemma

    Follow diffusion-based models and their assumptions.

  2. ARCH and GARCH

    Separate conditional volatility from observed returns.

  3. The Binomial Model

    Build replication and risk-neutral probabilities in a tractable model.

  4. Market Model and Risk-Neutral Valuation

    Distinguish pricing probabilities from physical forecasts.

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  1. Stochastic Volatility and the Heston Model

    Study a correlated stochastic-variance model.

  2. Reading the Implied Vol Surface — Moneyness, Term Structure, and Quoting Conventions

    Interpret prices across strikes and expiries.

  3. The Black-Scholes PDE, Formula and Implied Volatility

    Connect the pricing equation, closed-form value and implied volatility.

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