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Hyperbolic normal stochastic volatility model

Mathematical Finance 2019-01-10 v1 Applications

Abstract

For option pricing models and heavy-tailed distributions, this study proposes a continuous-time stochastic volatility model based on an arithmetic Brownian motion: a one-parameter extension of the normal stochastic alpha-beta-rho (SABR) model. Using two generalized Bougerol's identities in the literature, the study shows that our model has a closed-form Monte-Carlo simulation scheme and that the transition probability for one special case follows Johnson's SUS_U distribution---a popular heavy-tailed distribution originally proposed without stochastic process. It is argued that the SUS_U distribution serves as an analytically superior alternative to the normal SABR model because the two distributions are empirically similar.

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@article{arxiv.1809.04035,
  title  = {Hyperbolic normal stochastic volatility model},
  author = {Jaehyuk Choi and Chenru Liu and Byoung Ki Seo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.04035},
  year   = {2019}
}

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26 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables

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