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How to make Dupire's local volatility work with jumps

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Abstract

There are several (mathematical) reasons why Dupire's formula fails in the non-diffusion setting. And yet, in practice, ad-hoc preconditioning of the option data works reasonably well. In this note we attempt to explain why. In particular, we propose a regularization procedure of the option data so that Dupire's local vol diffusion process recreates the correct option prices, even in manifest presence of jumps.

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@article{arxiv.1302.5548,
  title  = {How to make Dupire's local volatility work with jumps},
  author = {Peter K. Friz and Stefan Gerhold and Marc Yor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.5548},
  year   = {2013}
}
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