Although the interest rate needs to be forecast, the study by Plato (1985) and others have shown that the interest rate forecast has little impact on the option premium. Therefore, the observed Treasury Bill interest rate is used as the parameter in this study.
Does implied volatility of currency futures option imply volatility of exchange rates?
โ Scribed by Alan T. Wang
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 170 KB
- Volume
- 374
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0378-4371
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