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The Exact Smile of some Local Volatility Models

Computational Finance 2012-11-12 v4 General Finance Pricing of Securities

Abstract

We introduce a new class of local volatility models. Within this framework, we obtain expressions for both (i) the price of any European option and (ii) the induced implied volatility smile. As an illustration of our framework, we perform specific pricing and implied volatility computations for a CEV-like example. Numerical examples are provided.

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@article{arxiv.1207.0750,
  title  = {The Exact Smile of some Local Volatility Models},
  author = {Matthew Lorig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.0750},
  year   = {2012}
}

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14 pages, 3 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1207.1630