快速均值回归随机波动率模型参数估计及应用

基于快速均值回归随机波动率模型, 研究双限期权的定价问题, 同时推导了考虑均值回归随机波动率的双限期权的定价公式。 根据金融市场中SPDR S&P 500 ETF期权的隐含波动率数据和标的资产的历史收益数据, 对快速均值回归随机波动率模型中的两个重要参数进行估计。 利用估计得到的参数以及定价公式, 对双限期权价格做了数值模拟。 数值模拟结果发现, 考虑了随机波动率之后双限期权的价格在标的资产价格偏高的时候会小于基于常数波动率模型的期权价格。     

基于跳跃波动率的未定权益定价模型

讨论了具有随机波动率的未定权益定价问题,建立了两状态波动率的股票价格行为模型,在股票价格过程是连续过程、跳风险不可定价的假设下,推导出未定权益的定价公式.     

Equilibruim approach of asset pricing under Lévy process

This work considers the equilibrium approach of asset pricing for Lévy process. It derives the equity premium and pricing kernel analytically for the stock price process, obtains an equilibrium option pricing formula, and explains some empirical evidence such as the negative variance risk premium, implied volatility smirk, and negative skewness risk premium by comparing the physical and risk-neutral distributions of the log return. Different from most of the current studies in equilibrium pricing under jump diffusion models, this work models the underlying asset price as the exponential of a Lévy process and thus allows nearly an arbitrage distribution of the jump component.     

A semi-analytic pricing formula for lookback options under a general stochastic volatility model

In general, the pricing problems of exotic options in finance do not have analytic solutions under stochastic volatility and so it is hard to compute the option prices or at least it requires much of time to compute them. This paper investigates a semi-analytic pricing method for lookback options in a general stochastic volatility framework. The resultant formula is well connected to the Black–Scholes price that is the first term of a series expansion, which makes computing the option prices relatively efficient. Further, a convergence condition for the expansion is provided with an error bound.     

Pricing currency options under two-factor Markov-modulated stochastic volatility models

This article investigates the valuation of currency options when the dynamic of the spot Foreign Exchange (FX) rate is governed by a two-factor Markov-modulated stochastic volatility model, with the first stochastic volatility component driven by a lognormal diffusion process and the second independent stochastic volatility component driven by a continuous-time finite-state Markov chain model. The states of the Markov chain can be interpreted as the states of an economy. We employ the regime-switching Esscher transform to determine a martingale pricing measure for valuing currency options under the incomplete market setting. We consider the valuation of the European-style and American-style currency options. In the case of American options, we provide a decomposition result for the American option price into the sum of its European counterpart and the early exercise premium. Numerical results are included.     

Pricing vulnerable options under a stochastic volatility model

In this paper, we consider the pricing of vulnerable options when the underlying asset follows a stochastic volatility model. We use multiscale asymptotic analysis to derive an analytic approximation formula for the price of the vulnerable options and study the stochastic volatility effect on the option price. A numerical experiment result is presented to demonstrate our findings graphically.     

Market calibration under a long memory stochastic volatility model

In this article, we study a long memory stochastic volatility model (LSV), under which stock prices follow a jump-diffusion stochastic process and its stochastic volatility is driven by a continuous-time fractional process that attains a long memory. LSV model should take into account most of the observed market aspects and unlike many other approaches, the volatility clustering phenomenon is captured explicitly by the long memory parameter. Moreover, this property has been reported in realized volatility time-series across different asset classes and time periods. In the first part of the article, we derive an alternative formula for pricing European securities. The formula enables us to effectively price European options and to calibrate the model to a given option market. In the second part of the article, we provide an empirical review of the model calibration. For this purpose, a set of traded FTSE 100 index call options is used and the long memory volatility model is compared to a popular pricing approach – the Heston model. To test stability of calibrated parameters and to verify calibration results from previous data set, we utilize multiple data sets from NYSE option market on Apple Inc. stock.     

Pricing VIX options in a stochastic vol‐of‐vol model

This paper proposes and makes a study of a new model for volatility index option pricing. Factors such as mean‐reversion, jumps, and stochastic volatility are taken into consideration. In particular, the positive volatility skew is addressed by the jump and the stochastic volatility of volatility. Daily calibration is used to check whether the model fits market prices and generates positive volatility skews. Overall, the results show that the mean‐reverting logarithmic jump and stochastic volatility model (called MRLRJSV in the paper) serves as the best model in all the required aspects. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

High-order computational methods for option valuation under multifactor models

Many of the different numerical techniques in the partial differential equations framework for solving option pricing problems have employed only standard second-order discretization schemes. A higher-order discretization has the advantage of producing low size matrix systems for computing sufficiently accurate option prices and this paper proposes new computational schemes yielding high-order convergence rates for the solution of multi-factor option problems. These new schemes employ Galerkin finite element discretizations with quadratic basis functions for the approximation of the spatial derivatives in the pricing equations for stochastic volatility and two-asset option problems and time integration of the resulting semi-discrete systems requires the computation of a single matrix exponential. The computations indicate that this combination of high-order finite elements and exponential time integration leads to efficient algorithms for multi-factor problems. Highly accurate European prices are obtained with relatively coarse meshes and high-order convergence rates are also observed for options with the American early exercise feature. Various numerical examples are provided for illustrating the accuracy of the option prices for Heston’s and Bates stochastic volatility models and for two-asset problems under Merton’s jump-diffusion model.     

The Minimal Entropy Martingale Measure and Numerical Option Pricing for the Barndorff–Nielsen–Shephard Stochastic Volatility Model

Abstract

We develop and apply a numerical scheme for pricing options in the stochastic volatility model proposed by Barndorff–Nielsen and Shephard. This non-Gaussian Ornstein–Uhlenbeck type of volatility model gives rise to an incomplete market, and we consider the option prices under the minimal entropy martingale measure. To numerically price options with respect to this risk neutral measure, one needs to consider a Black and Scholes type of partial differential equation, with an integro-term arising from the volatility process. We suggest finite difference schemes to solve this parabolic integro-partial differential equation, and derive appropriate boundary conditions for the finite difference method. As an application of our algorithm, we consider price deviations from the Black and Scholes formula for call options, and the implications of the stochastic volatility on the shape of the volatility smile.     

Option pricing with mean reversion and stochastic volatility

Many underlying assets of option contracts, such as currencies, commodities, energy, temperature and even some stocks, exhibit both mean reversion and stochastic volatility. This paper investigates the valuation of options when the underlying asset follows a mean-reverting lognormal process with stochastic volatility. A closed-form solution is derived for European options by means of Fourier transform. The proposed model allows the option pricing formula to capture both the term structure of futures prices and the market implied volatility smile within a unified framework. A bivariate trinomial lattice approach is introduced to value path-dependent options with the proposed model. Numerical examples using European options, American options and barrier options demonstrate the use of the model and the quality of the numerical scheme.     

带跳随机波动率模型的高阶ADI分裂格式

针对带跳随机波动率模型满足的偏积分微分方程,提出一种新的高阶交替方向隐式（ADI）有限差分格式,该模型是一个具有混合导数和非常数系数的对流扩散型初边值问题.我们将不同的高阶空间离散与时间步ADI分裂格式相结合,得到了一种空间四阶精度、时间二阶精度的有效方法,并采用Fourier方法分析了高阶ADI格式的稳定性.最后,通过对欧式看跌期权定价模型进行数值实验证实了数值方法的高阶收敛性.     

Uniform Asymptotic Expansions for Pricing European Options

Starting with a stochastic volatility model, in which the volatility depends on a nonlinear function of a fast varying diffusion, and assuming the fast diffusion is mean reverting, the problem of pricing European options is considered in this paper. Uniform asymptotic expansions of the option price are obtained. The formal expansions are justified and the uniform error bounds are derived using outer and inner expansions of the option prices.     

跳扩散和随机利率模型下的欧式双向期权定价

假定股票价格的跳跃过程为一类特殊的更新跳过程,即事件发生时间间隔为相互独立且同服从Gamma分布的随机变量序列.利用鞅定价方法,用较简单的数学推导得到了在随机利率情形下跳扩散模型的欧式双向期权定价公式.     

A uniform asymptotic expansion for stochastic volatility model in pricing multi‐asset European options

In this paper, we consider a stochastic volatility model for pricing multi‐asset European options that are widely used in the real world, under the assumption that the volatilities are driven by different OU processes. Using the singular perturbation method for multi‐parameter and the boundary layer theory, we derive a uniform asymptotic expansion for the option prices, as well as the uniform error estimates. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于傅立叶变换的SVJ模型的欧式期权定价

为了更加精确的计算期权价格,将结合随机波动和跳扩散模型(以下简称SVJ模型)以更好的描述期权标的资产价格过程,然而这样的价格过程无法得到概率密度函数的封闭形式,而只能得到包含特殊函数和无限求和的复杂的表达式.不过它们的特征函数都是封闭且是唯一的,因而可以通过它们的特征函数,并运用两种傅立叶变换的方法来求出期权价格.其中FFT算法计算的结果将与Monte Carlo模拟得出的结果进行比较,然后再将SVJ模型的计算结果和Black-Scholes模型进行比较.     

An IMEX‐BDF2 compact scheme for pricing options under regime‐switching jump‐diffusion models

In this paper, an implicit‐explicit two‐step backward differentiation formula (IMEX‐BDF2) together with finite difference compact scheme is developed for the numerical pricing of European and American options whose asset price dynamics follow the regime‐switching jump‐diffusion process. It is shown that IMEX‐BDF2 method for solving this system of coupled partial integro‐differential equations is stable with the second‐order accuracy in time. On the basis of IMEX‐BDF2 time semi‐discrete method, we derive a fourth‐order compact (FOC) finite difference scheme for spatial discretization. Since the payoff function of the option at the strike price is not differentiable, the results show only second‐order accuracy in space. To remedy this, a local mesh refinement strategy is used near the strike price so that the accuracy achieves fourth order. Numerical results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for European and American options under regime‐switching jump‐diffusion models.     

Wavelet-based option pricing: An empirical study

In this paper, we scrutinize the empirical performance of a wavelet-based option pricing model which leverages the powerful computational capability of wavelets in approximating risk-neutral moment-generating functions. We focus on the forecasting and hedging performance of the model in comparison with that of popular alternative models, including the stochastic volatility model with jumps, the practitioner Black–Scholes model and the neural network based model. Using daily index options written on the German DAX 30 index from January 2009 to December 2012, our results suggest that the wavelet-based model compares favorably with all other models except the neural network based one, especially for long-term options. Hence our novel wavelet-based option pricing model provides an excellent nonparametric alternative for valuing option prices.     

动态随机弹性在期权定价中的应用

给出动态随机弹性的概念及运算性质,讨论了动态随机弹性在期权定价模型中的应用.主要结果有:(1)在波动率为常数时,期权价格对的弹性,得到了动态随机弹性服从运动,并给出了相应的经济解释;(2)由于波动率一般不是常数,也是随机过程,因此本文进一步研究了期权价格对波动率的弹性,就股票价格的波动情况给出了数学描述和金融意义上的解释.