Modeling the Short Rate as a Levy Process and Option Pricing with the FFT.

Modeling the Short Rate as a Levy Process and Option Pricing with the FFT.
Author: Roy Zywina
Publisher:
Total Pages: 11
Release: 2017
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This paper describes a practical algorithm for modeling interest rate derivatives with the short rate following a Levy process using the fast Fourier transform algorithm (FFT). It can be used with any Levy process for which we have a closed form formula for the characteristic function, this includes a large variety of 'fat-tailed' jump diffusion processes. This model allows for the computation of forward rates and can be used to price American and Bermudan exercise options. Pricing algorithms are provided for option bonds and swaptions. The model is effectively equivalent to a tree approach except that diffusion is done by FFT instead of by branching. Pricing algorithms using trees or finite difference method can be easily adapted. Under the Normal distribution it can replicate the single factor Hull-White and Black-Karasinski models. The model supports mean reversion of interest rates. Monte Carlo simulations can be efficiently performed as well.

Exotic Option Pricing and Advanced Lévy Models

Exotic Option Pricing and Advanced Lévy Models
Author: Andreas Kyprianou
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2006-06-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470017201

Since around the turn of the millennium there has been a general acceptance that one of the more practical improvements one may make in the light of the shortfalls of the classical Black-Scholes model is to replace the underlying source of randomness, a Brownian motion, by a Lévy process. Working with Lévy processes allows one to capture desirable distributional characteristics in the stock returns. In addition, recent work on Lévy processes has led to the understanding of many probabilistic and analytical properties, which make the processes attractive as mathematical tools. At the same time, exotic derivatives are gaining increasing importance as financial instruments and are traded nowadays in large quantities in OTC markets. The current volume is a compendium of chapters, each of which consists of discursive review and recent research on the topic of exotic option pricing and advanced Lévy markets, written by leading scientists in this field. In recent years, Lévy processes have leapt to the fore as a tractable mechanism for modeling asset returns. Exotic option values are especially sensitive to an accurate portrayal of these dynamics. This comprehensive volume provides a valuable service for financial researchers everywhere by assembling key contributions from the world's leading researchers in the field. Peter Carr, Head of Quantitative Finance, Bloomberg LP. This book provides a front-row seat to the hottest new field in modern finance: options pricing in turbulent markets. The old models have failed, as many a professional investor can sadly attest. So many of the brightest minds in mathematical finance across the globe are now in search of new, more accurate models. Here, in one volume, is a comprehensive selection of this cutting-edge research. Richard L. Hudson, former Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe, and co-author with Benoit B. Mandelbrot of The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward

Option Pricing with Levy Process

Option Pricing with Levy Process
Author: Eric Benhamou
Publisher:
Total Pages: 22
Release: 2001
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In this paper, we assume that log returns can be modelled by a Levy process. We give explicit formulae for option prices by means of the Fourier transform. We explain how to infer the characteristics of the Levy process from option prices.This enables us to generate an implicit volatility surface implied by market data. This model is of particular interest since it extends the seminal Black Scholes [1973] model consistently with volatility smile.

Modular Pricing of Options

Modular Pricing of Options
Author: Jianwei Zhu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3662043092

From a technical point of view, the celebrated Black and Scholes option pricing formula was originally developed using a separation of variables technique. However, already Merton mentioned in his seminal 1973 pa per, that it could have been developed by using Fourier transforms as well. Indeed, as is well known nowadays, Fourier transforms are a rather convenient solution technique for many models involving the fundamental partial differential equation of financial economics. It took the community nearly another twenty years to recognize that Fourier transform is even more useful, if one applies it to problems in financial economics without seeking an explicit analytical inverse trans form. Heston (1993) probably was the first to demonstrate how to solve a stochastic volatility option pricing model quasi analytically using the characteristic function of the problem, which is nothing else than the Fourier transform of the underlying Arrow /Debreu-prices, and doing the inverse transformation numerically. This opened the door for a whole bunch of new closed form solutions in the transformed Fourier space and still is one of the most active research areas in financial economics.

Pricing American Options in Regime-Switching Models

Pricing American Options in Regime-Switching Models
Author: Svetlana Boyarchenko
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
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The pricing problem for American options in Markov-modulated Lévy models is solved. The early exercise boundaries and prices are calculated using a generalization of Carr's randomization procedure for regime-switching models. The pricing procedure is efficient even if the number of states is large provided the transition rates are not large w.r.t. the riskless rates. The payoffs and riskless rates may depend on a state. Special cases are stochastic volatility models and models with stochastic interest rate; both must be modeled as finite-state Markov chains. In contrast with the earlier version of the method, an explicit algorithm is formulated for wide classes of Lévy processes, and FFT and iFFT are used.

Option Pricing in Incomplete Markets

Option Pricing in Incomplete Markets
Author: Yoshio Miyahara
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2012
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 1848163487

This volume offers the reader practical methods to compute the option prices in the incomplete asset markets. The [GLP & MEMM] pricing models are clearly introduced, and the properties of these models are discussed in great detail. It is shown that the geometric L(r)vy process (GLP) is a typical example of the incomplete market, and that the MEMM (minimal entropy martingale measure) is an extremely powerful pricing measure. This volume also presents the calibration procedure of the [GLP \& MEMM] model that has been widely used in the application of practical problem

Pricing Derivatives Under Lévy Models

Pricing Derivatives Under Lévy Models
Author: Andrey Itkin
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2017-02-27
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1493967924

This monograph presents a novel numerical approach to solving partial integro-differential equations arising in asset pricing models with jumps, which greatly exceeds the efficiency of existing approaches. The method, based on pseudo-differential operators and several original contributions to the theory of finite-difference schemes, is new as applied to the Lévy processes in finance, and is herein presented for the first time in a single volume. The results within, developed in a series of research papers, are collected and arranged together with the necessary background material from Lévy processes, the modern theory of finite-difference schemes, the theory of M-matrices and EM-matrices, etc., thus forming a self-contained work that gives the reader a smooth introduction to the subject. For readers with no knowledge of finance, a short explanation of the main financial terms and notions used in the book is given in the glossary. The latter part of the book demonstrates the efficacy of the method by solving some typical problems encountered in computational finance, including structural default models with jumps, and local stochastic volatility models with stochastic interest rates and jumps. The author also adds extra complexity to the traditional statements of these problems by taking into account jumps in each stochastic component while all jumps are fully correlated, and shows how this setting can be efficiently addressed within the framework of the new method. Written for non-mathematicians, this book will appeal to financial engineers and analysts, econophysicists, and researchers in applied numerical analysis. It can also be used as an advance course on modern finite-difference methods or computational finance.

Switching Levy Models in Continuous Time

Switching Levy Models in Continuous Time
Author: Kyriakos Chourdakis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 39
Release: 2008
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This paper introduces a general regime switching Levy process, and constructs the characteristic function in closed form. Correlations between the underlying Markov chain and the asset returns are also allowed, by imposing asset price jumps whenever a regime change takes place. Based on the characteristic function the conditional densities and vanilla option prices can be rapidly computed using FFT. It is shown that the regime switching model has the potential to capture a wide variety of implied volatility skews. The paper also discusses the pricing of exotic contracts, like barrier, Bermudan and American options, by implementation of a quadrature method. A detailed numerical experiment illustrates the application of the regime switching framework.

Mathematical Modeling And Methods Of Option Pricing

Mathematical Modeling And Methods Of Option Pricing
Author: Lishang Jiang
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2005-07-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9813106557

From the unique perspective of partial differential equations (PDE), this self-contained book presents a systematic, advanced introduction to the Black-Scholes-Merton's option pricing theory.A unified approach is used to model various types of option pricing as PDE problems, to derive pricing formulas as their solutions, and to design efficient algorithms from the numerical calculation of PDEs. In particular, the qualitative and quantitative analysis of American option pricing is treated based on free boundary problems, and the implied volatility as an inverse problem is solved in the optimal control framework of parabolic equations.

Pricing of Discretely Sampled Asian Options Under Levy Processes

Pricing of Discretely Sampled Asian Options Under Levy Processes
Author: Jiayao Xie
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Release: 2012
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ABSTRACT. We develop a new method for pricing options on discretely sampled arithmetic average in exponential Levy models. The main idea is the reduction to a backward in- duction procedure for the difference Wn between the Asian option with averaging over n sampling periods and the price of the European option with maturity one period. This al- lows for an efficient truncation of the state space. At each step of backward induction, Wn is calculated accurately and fast using a piece-wise interpolation or splines, fast convolu- tion and either flat iFT and (refined) iFFT or the parabolic iFT. Numerical results demonstrate the advantages of the method. Keywords: Option pricing, flat iFT method, parabolic iFT method, FFT, refined and enhanced FFT, Levy processes, KoBoL, CGMY, BM, Asian options.