easy · Quantitative Finance
Why does the presence of 'Fat Tails' in return distributions lead to a volatility smile?
- The BSM model assumes returns are lognormally distributed with no variance
- Fat tails increase the time decay (Theta) of the option
- The BSM normal distribution understates the probability of extreme moves
- Fat tails imply that the asset price cannot go to zero
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