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Calibration of the Bass Local Volatility model

Mathematical Finance 2025-07-31 v2 Probability

Abstract

The Bass local volatility model introduced by Backhoff-Veraguas, Beiglb\"ock, Huesmann, and K\"allblad is a Markov model perfectly calibrated to vanilla options at finitely many maturities, that approximates the Dupire local volatility model. Conze and Henry-Labord\`ere show that its calibration can be achieved by solving a fixed-point equation. In this paper we complement the analysis and show existence and uniqueness of the solution to this equation, and that the fixed-point iteration scheme converges at a linear rate.

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@article{arxiv.2311.14567,
  title  = {Calibration of the Bass Local Volatility model},
  author = {Beatrice Acciaio and Antonio Marini and Gudmund Pammer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.14567},
  year   = {2025}
}