彩虹障碍期权的定价问题

采用偏微分方程方法研究了彩虹障碍期权的定价问题,推导出它满足的偏微分方程,通过求解这个偏微分方程得出了八种彩虹障碍期权的定价公式及四个看涨——看跌平价公式.     

Notes on contributors

Mathematics in the United States developed slowly over its first one hundred years. Before the appearance of successful mathematics journals, American mathematicians depended on science journals to publish their work. Three journals, the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Journal of Science and Arts, played pivotal roles in the development of a mathematics publication community.     

GARCH模型中美式亚式期权价值的蒙特卡罗模拟算法

我们运用 Longstaff和 Schwartz最近提出的用蒙特卡罗模拟法计算美式期权的方法在 GARCH模型中求解美式亚式期权 ,我们的结果表明和其它数值方法相比 ,这个方法不仅有相当的精确度 ,而且使用简便并具有更广泛的适用性 ,对于 GARCH模型中运用格点法难以求解的浮动执行价格的美式亚式期权同样可以得到稳定解 .     

居民家庭耐用消费品的消费时机选择:实物期权的方法

针对当前居民家庭消费的特点，为了合理地选择耐用消费品的最佳购买时机，本分析耐用品的价格和性能具有实物期权的属性，建立了一个关于“性价比”变量的随机微分方程，并且求出了购买时机临界值的解析公式。最后对日常生活中发生的购买时间现象给予了解释。     

具有跳跃特征的资产价格过程的期权定价模型研究

资产价格具有跳跃特征时，衍生于该资产的期权就不能利用传统的Black-Schoels公式进行定价。本主要研究基于Poisson过程和固定跳跃Merton模型的期权定价与风险对冲问题，利用e-套利定价法，得到期权的风险对冲策略所满足的偏微分方程和近似期权定价。     

Advances for proficiency testing for genetic laboratory science

Nucleic acid based clinical genetic testing has undergone explosive growth in recent years due in large part to the human genome project. Characterization of the human genome has led to a molecular understanding of the pathogenesis of many human diseases, and ultimately to clinical molecular tests becoming routinely used to diagnose a wide diversity of diseases. This rapid growth in clinical molecular genetic testing coupled with the complexity of the analytical procedures underscores the necessity for proficiency testing (i.e. external quality assessment) to allow laboratories offering such services the ability to evaluate their analytical procedures via inter-laboratory comparisons. The American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) in partnership with the College of American Pathologists (CAP) have been offering proficiency testing for clinical molecular genetics laboratories since 1995, and presently have more than 230 laboratories from 11 countries enrolled in this program. This paper describes the evolution of this program and several challenges encountered in the delivery of a proficiency testing program for laboratories offering clinical molecular genetic services. Received: 13 April 2002 Accepted: 18 July 2002     

标的股价服从混合过程的期权定价公式及有限元算法

本文将马尔科夫跳跃过程叠加于 Ito过程 ,形成混合过程 ,并用该过程来刻画股价走势情况。而后在标的股价服从混合过程的基础上 ,推导出了欧式看涨期权的定价公式 ,并对美式看跌期权定价给出了有限元算法。     

美国红鱼(Sciaenops ocellatus)的鱼苗特性及苗种运输技术

美国红鱼的鱼苗阶段以轮虫和卤虫为主要饵料，鱼苗生长迅速，孵化后约25d即为体长3．0cm左右的幼鱼．对体长2．0～7.0cm鱼苗的运输试验结果表明，美国红鱼苗对长时间运输的耐受力较强．在水温24℃以下，尼龙袋和帆布桶运输10h以内的运输成活率均在94％以上．引起鱼苗死亡的临界DO为2．2mg／L.     

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS APPLIED TO WILDERNESS PRESERVATION—OPTION VALUE UNCERTAINTY AND DITONICITY

It has been recognized for some time that when cost-benefit analysis is applied to irreversible environmental decisions, such as that of developing or preserving wilderness land, there can be an option value associated with the preservation decision, which arises when there is future uncertainty with respect to the benefits of development or preservation. In this paper the provenance of option value is examined and it is shown that an important cause is a special kind of uncertainty, viz. the possibility of reversals in direction of the relative valuations of wilderness land and developed land, a property we refer to as ditonicity. It is shown that the more ditonic the relative valuation process the greater the deviance between the certainty-equivalence development policy and the stochastically optimal one, and thus by implication the greater the option value. In the two cases with zero ditonicity, when relative wilderness valuations always increase or always decrease (even though in a stochastic fashion), there is zero option value. The model used assumes that service flows from wilderness and developed land are size-dependent, with future relative values known only in terms of a stochastic process, which can take jumps up or down of the same proportional size, at random times. Development can be partial or total and can occur in impulses at any time over an infinite time horizon.     

Valuation of guaranteed annuity options using a stochastic volatility model for equity prices

Guaranteed annuity options are options providing the right to convert a policyholder’s accumulated funds to a life annuity at a fixed rate when the policy matures. These options were a common feature in UK retirement savings contracts issued in the 1970’s and 1980’s when interest rates were high, but caused problems for insurers as the interest rates began to fall in the 1990’s. Currently, these options are frequently sold in the US and Japan as part of variable annuity products. The last decade the literature on pricing and risk management of these options evolved. Until now, for pricing these options generally a geometric Brownian motion for equity prices is assumed. However, given the long maturities of the insurance contracts a stochastic volatility model for equity prices would be more suitable. In this paper explicit expressions are derived for prices of guaranteed annuity options assuming stochastic volatility for equity prices and either a 1-factor or 2-factor Gaussian interest rate model. The results indicate that the impact of ignoring stochastic volatility can be significant.