We first introduce a new variant of the tempered stable distribution, named the modified tempered stable(MTS) distribution and we use it to develop the GARCH option pricing model with MTS innovations. This model allows one to describe some stylized phenomena observed in financial markets such as volatility clustering, skewness, and heavy tails of the return distribution.
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