Path Dependant Option Pricing Under Levy Processes

Path Dependant Option Pricing Under Levy Processes
Author: Conall O'Sullivan
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Total Pages: 24
Release: 2005
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A model is developed that can price path dependent options when the underlying process is an exponential Levy process with closed form conditional characteristic function. The model is an extension of a recent quadrature option pricing model so that it can be applied with the use of Fourier and Fast Fourier transforms. Thus the model possesses nice features of both transform and quadrature option pricing techniques since it can be applied for a very general set of underlying Levy processes and can handle exotic path dependent features. The model is applied to European and Bermudan options for geometric Brownian motion, a jump-diffusion process, a variance gamma process and a normal inverse Gaussian process. However it must be noted that the model can also price other path dependent exotic options such as lookback and Asian options.

Path-dependent Option Pricing

Path-dependent Option Pricing
Author: Gudbjort Gylfadottir
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Release: 2010
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ABSTRACT: This dissertation is concerned with the pricing of path-dependent options where the underlying asset is modeled as a continuous-time exponential Lévy process and is monitored at discrete dates. These options enable their users to tailor random payoff outcomes to their particular risk profiles and are widely used by hedgers such as large multinational corporations and speculators alike. The use of continuous-time models since the breakthrough paper of Black and Scholes has been greatly facilitated by advances in stochastic calculus and the mathematical elegance it provides. The recent financial crisis started in 2008 has highlighted the importance of models that incorporate the possibility of sudden, large jumps as well as the higher likelihood of adverse outcomes as compared with the classical Black-Scholes model. Increasingly, exponential Lévy processes have become preferred alternatives, thanks in particular to the explicit Lévy-Khinchin representation of their characteristic functions. On the other hand, the restriction of monitoring dates to a discrete set increases the mathematical and computational complexity for the pricing of path-dependent options even in the classical Black-Scholes model. This dissertation develops new techniques based on recent advances in the fast evaluation and inversion of Fourier and Hilbert transforms as well as classical results in fluctuation theory, particularly those involving random walk duality and ladder epochs.

Option Pricing in Incomplete Markets

Option Pricing in Incomplete Markets
Author: Yoshio Miyahara
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2012
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1848163479

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 Lvy 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 problems.

Option Pricing in Some Non-Levy Jump Models

Option Pricing in Some Non-Levy Jump Models
Author: Lingfei Li
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Total Pages: 31
Release: 2016
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This paper considers pricing European options in a large class of one-dimensional Markovian jump processes known as subordinate diffusions, which are obtained by time changing a diffusion process with an independent Levy or additive random clock. These jump processes are non-Levy in general, and they can be viewed as natural generalization of many popular Levy processes used in finance. Subordinate diffusions other richer jump behavior than Levy processes and they have found a variety of applications in financial modelling. The pricing problem for these processes presents unique challenges as existing numerical PIDE schemes fail to be efficient and the applicability of transform methods to many subordinate diffusions is unclear. We develop a novel method based on finite difference approximation of spatial derivatives and matrix eigendecomposition, and it can deal with diffusions that exhibit various types of boundary behavior. Since financial payoffs are typically not smooth, we apply a smoothing technique and use extrapolation to speed up convergence. We provide convergence and error analysis and perform various numerical experiments to show the proposed method is fast and accurate. Extension to pricing path-dependent options will be investigated in a follow-up paper.

Time-Changed Levy Process and Option Pricing

Time-Changed Levy Process and Option Pricing
Author: Peter Carr
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Total Pages: 35
Release: 2001
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We apply stochastic time change to Levy processes to generate a wide variety of tractable option pricing models. In particular, we prove a fundamental theorem that transforms the characteristic function of the time-changed Levy process into the Laplace transform of the stochastic time under appropriate measure change. We extend the traditional measure theory into the complex domain and define the measure change by a class of complex valued exponential martingales. We provide extensive examples to illustrate its applications and its link to existing models in the literature.

Efficient Option Pricing Under Levy Processes, with CVA and FVA.

Efficient Option Pricing Under Levy Processes, with CVA and FVA.
Author: Justin Shek
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Total Pages: 31
Release: 2015
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We generalize the Piterbarg (2010) model to include 1) bilateral default risk as in Burgard and Kjaer (2012), and 2) jumps in the dynamics of the underlying asset using general classes of Lévy processes of exponential type. We develop an efficient explicit-implicit scheme for European options and barrier options taking CVA-FVA into account. We highlight the importance of this work in the context of trading, pricing and management a derivative portfolio given the trajectory of regulations.