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We introduce a multi-factor stochastic volatility model based on the CIR/Heston volatility process that incorporates seasonality and the Samuelson effect. First, we give conditions on the seasonal term under which the corresponding…

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We consider a stochastic volatility asset price model in which the volatility is the absolute value of a continuous Gaussian process with arbitrary prescribed mean and covariance. By exhibiting a Karhunen-Lo\`{e}ve expansion for the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-02-08 Archil Gulisashvili , Frederi Viens , Xin Zhang

We introduce a novel multi-factor Heston-based stochastic volatility model, which is able to reproduce consistently typical multi-dimensional FX vanilla markets, while retaining the (semi)-analytical tractability typical of affine models…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2015-03-20 Alvise De Col , Alessandro Gnoatto , Martino Grasselli

The purpose of this work is to explore the role that random arbitrage opportunities play in pricing financial derivatives. We use a non-equilibrium model to set up a stochastic portfolio, and for the random arbitrage return, we choose a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-10 Sergei Fedotov , Stephanos Panayides

We introduce a multi-factor stochastic volatility model based on the CIR/Heston stochastic volatility process. In order to capture the Samuelson effect displayed by commodity futures contracts, we add expiry-dependent exponential damping…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2015-02-23 Lorenz Schneider , Bertrand Tavin

We consider a stochastic volatility model with L\'evy jumps for a log-return process $Z=(Z_{t})_{t\geq 0}$ of the form $Z=U+X$, where $U=(U_{t})_{t\geq 0}$ is a classical stochastic volatility process and $X=(X_{t})_{t\geq 0}$ is an…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2012-02-23 J. E. Figueroa-López , R. Gong , C. Houdré

This study develops an integrated stochastic modeling framework for pricing short and medium-maturity equity options and assessing interest-rate risk using the Heston (1993), Bates (1996), and CIR (1985) models. We calibrate the Heston…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-28 Nunik Srikandi Putri , Ajay Kumar Verma , Neo Paul Lesupi

We consider implied volatilities in asset pricing models, where the discounted underlying is a strict local martingale under the pricing measure. Our main result gives an asymptotic expansion of the right wing of the implied volatility…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-08-19 Antoine Jacquier , Martin Keller-Ressel

We present a study of the short maturity asymptotics for Asian options in a jump-diffusion model with a local volatility component, where the jumps are modeled as a compound Poisson process. The analysis for out-of-the-money Asian options…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2024-05-08 Dan Pirjol , Lingjiong Zhu

In energy markets, joint historical and implied calibration is of paramount importance for practitioners, yet notoriously challenging due to the need to align historical correlations of futures contracts with implied volatility smiles from…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-29 Eduardo Abi Jaber , Soukaïna Bruneau , Nathan De Carvalho , Dimitri Sotnikov , Laurent Tur

The paper proposes an expanded version of the Local Variance Gamma model of Carr and Nadtochiy by adding drift to the governing underlying process. Still in this new model it is possible to derive an ordinary differential equation for the…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-12-27 Peter Carr , Andrey Itkin

The asymptotic behavior of the implied volatility associated with a general call pricing function has been extensively studied in the last decade. The main topics discussed in this paper are Lee's moment formulas for the implied volatility,…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2010-08-02 Archil Gulisashvili

We review and illustrate how the volatility smile translates into a probability distribution, the market-implied probability distribution representing believes priced in. The effects of changes in the smile are examined. Special attention…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2009-11-05 Ulrich Kirchner

We propose an affine extension of the Linear Gaussian term structure Model (LGM) such that the instantaneous covariation of the factors is given by an affine process on semidefinite positive matrices. First, we set up the model and present…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-11-05 Abdelkoddousse Ahdida , Aurélien Alfonsi , Ernesto Palidda

We describe a model for evolving commodity forward prices that incorporates three important dynamics which appear in many commodity markets: mean reversion in spot prices and the resulting Samuelson effect on volatility term structure,…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2017-08-10 Mark Higgins

We revisit the foundational Moment Formula proved by Roger Lee fifteen years ago. We show that when the underlying stock price martingale admits finite log-moments E[|log(S)|^q] for some positive q, the arbitrage-free growth in the left…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2021-01-21 Vimal Raval , Antoine Jacquier

Generating realistic synthetic option prices requires implied volatility as an input, yet implied volatility is itself derived from observed option prices, creating a circular dependency that limits synthetic data for machine-learning and…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-15 Julia Sun , Zheyu Jin , Jiawei Zhang , Jeffrey D. Varner

This study investigates the short-term asymptotic behavior of the implied volatility surface (IVS), with a particular focus on the at-the-money (ATM) skew and curvature, which are key determinants of the IVS shape and whose are widely…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2025-06-24 Liexin Cheng , Xue Cheng

In this paper, we study the statistical properties of the moneyness scaling transformation by Leung and Sircar (2015). This transformation adjusts the moneyness coordinate of the implied volatility smile in an attempt to remove the…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-09-22 Sergey Nasekin , Wolfgang Karl Härdle

We derive the short-maturity asymptotics for Asian option prices in local-stochastic volatility (LSV) models. Both out-of-the-money (OTM) and at-the-money (ATM) asymptotics are considered. Using large deviations theory methods, the…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2025-09-24 Dan Pirjol , Lingjiong Zhu