Dynamics of state price densities
状态价格密度的动态变化
State price densities (SPDs) are an important element in applied quantitative finance. In a Black-Scholes world they are lognormal distributions, but in practice volatility changes and the distribution deviates from log-normality. In order to study the degree of this deviation, we estimate SPDs using EUREX option data on the DAX index via a nonparametric estimator of the second derivative of the (European) call pricing function. The estimator is constrained so as to satisfy…