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Option contracts are a type of financial derivative that allow investors to hedge risk and speculate on the variation of an asset's future market price. In short, an option has a particular payout that is based on the market price for an…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2012-02-14 Jacob Abernethy , Rafael M. Frongillo , Andre Wibisono

A general lower bound is developed for the minimax risk when estimating an arbitrary functional. The bound is based on testing two composite hypotheses and is shown to be effective in estimating the nonsmooth functional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-05-17 T. Tony Cai , Mark G. Low

Assuming that price of the underlying stock is moving in range bound, the Black-Scholes formula for options pricing supports a separation of variables. The resulting time-independent equation is solved employing different behavior of the…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2013-07-24 Ovidiu Racorean

In this work, we consider the setting of learning problems under a wide class of spectral risk (or "L-risk") functions, where a Lipschitz-continuous spectral density is used to flexibly assign weight to extreme loss values. We obtain excess…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-12 Matthew J. Holland , El Mehdi Haress

First, classes of Markov processes that scale exactly with a Hurst exponent H are derived in closed form. A special case of one class is the Tsallis density, advertised elsewhere as nonlinear diffusion or diffusion with nonlinear feedback.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-12-02 J. L. McCauley , G. H. Gunaratne , K. E. Bassler

We study specific nonlinear transformations of the Black-Scholes implied volatility to show remarkable properties of the volatility surface. Model-free bounds on the implied volatility skew are given. Pricing formulas for the European…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2010-09-30 Masaaki Fukasawa

We introduce a novel mesh-free and direct method for computing the shape derivative in PDE-constrained shape optimization problems. Our approach is based on a probabilistic representation of the shape derivative and is applicable for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Luka Schlegel , Volker Schulz , Frank T. Seifried , Maximilian Würschmidt

In the paper written by Klibanov et al, it proposes a novel method to calculate implied volatility of a European stock options as a solution to ill-posed inverse problem for the Black-Scholes equation. In addition, it proposes a trading…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Wanchaloem Wunkaew , Yuqing Liu , Kirill V. Golubnichiy

We consider the problem of optimizing the sum of a smooth, nonconvex function for which derivatives are unavailable, and a convex, nonsmooth function with easy-to-evaluate proximal operator. Of particular focus is the case where the smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Yanjun Liu , Kevin H. Lam , Lindon Roberts

We consider the problem of estimating a continuous distribution function $F$, as well as meaningful functions $\tau(F)$ under a large class of loss functions. We obtain best invariant estimators and establish their minimaxity for H\"{o}lder…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-09 Mohammad Jafari Jozani , Alexandre Leblanc , Eric Marchand

In this study, we extend the optimal execution problem with convex market impact function studied in Kato (2014) to the case where the market impact function is S-shaped, that is, concave on $[0, \bar {x}_0]$ and convex on $[\bar {x}_0,…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-03-07 Takashi Kato

We present an argument based on the multidimensional and the uniform central limit theorems, proving that, under some geometrical assumptions between the target function $T$ and the learning class $F$, the excess risk of the empirical risk…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-02-25 Guillaume Lecué , Shahar Mendelson

We study the optimal investment problem for a homogeneous collective of $n$ individuals investing in a Black-Scholes model subject to longevity risk with Epstein--Zin preferences. %and with preferences given by power utility. We compute…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-09-25 John Armstrong , Cristin Buescu , James Dalby

In this paper we develop numerical pricing methodologies for European style Exchange Options written on a pair of correlated assets, in a market with finite liquidity. In contrast to the standard multi-asset Black-Scholes framework, trading…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2020-06-16 Kevin S. Zhang , Traian A. Pirvu

We consider expected utility maximisation problem for exponential Levy models and HARA utilities in presence of illiquid asset in portfolio. This illiquid asset is modelled by an option of European type on another risky asset which is…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-04-20 Lioudmila Vostrikova

We introduce and discuss a general criterion for the derivative pricing in the general situation of incomplete markets, we refer to it as the No Almost Sure Arbitrage Principle. This approach is based on the theory of optimal strategy in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-12-10 E. Aurell , R. Baviera , O. Hammarlid , M. Serva , A. Vulpiani

Quantum Finance represents the synthesis of the techniques of quantum theory (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory) to theoretical and applied finance. After a brief overview of the connection between these fields, we illustrate some…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-23 Belal E. Baaquie , Claudio Coriano , Marakani Srikant

Prediction markets, such as Polymarket, aggregate dispersed information into tradable probabilities, but they still lack a unifying stochastic kernel comparable to the one options gained from Black-Scholes. As these markets scale with…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Shaw Dalen

Market illiquidity, feedback effects, presence of transaction costs, risk from unprotected portfolio and other nonlinear effects in PDE based option pricing models can be described by solutions to the generalized Black-Scholes parabolic…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2015-11-25 Karol Duris , Shih-Hau Tan , Choi-Hong Lai , Daniel Sevcovic

It is shown that a certain functional of a branching process has representations in terms of both a maximisation problem and a minimisation problem. A consequence of these representation is that upper and lower bounds on the functional can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-24 David P. Driver , Michael R. Tehranchi