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A statistical decision problem is hidden in the core of option pricing. A simple form for the price C of a European call option is obtained via the minimum Bayes risk, R_B, of a 2-parameter estimation problem, thus justifying calling C…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2013-04-19 Yannis G. Yatracos

In this paper, we propose an iterative splitting method to solve the partial differential equations in option pricing problems. We focus on the Heston stochastic volatility model and the derived two-dimensional partial differential equation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Hongshan Li , Zhongyi Huang

This paper presents a new asymptotic expansion method for pricing continuously monitoring barrier options. In particular, we develops a semi-group expansion scheme for the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem in the second-order parabolic partial…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2014-10-03 Takashi Kato , Akihiko Takahashi , Toshihiro Yamada

We determine the Lie point symmetries of the Fokker-Planck equation and provide examples of solutions of this equation. The Fokker-Planck equation admits a conserved form, hence there is an auxiliary system associated to this equation and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-16 Faya Doumbo Kamano , Bakary Manga , Joël Tossa

In this paper, we derive closed-form formulas of first-order approximation for down-and-out barrier and floating strike lookback put option prices under a stochastic volatility model, by using an asymptotic approach. To find the explicit…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2022-05-03 Jiling Cao , Jeong-Hoon Kim , Xi Li , Wenjun Zhang

Semi-analytical pricing of American options in a time-dependent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model was presented in [Carr, Itkin, 2020]. It was shown that to obtain these prices one needs to solve (numerically) a nonlinear Volterra integral equation…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-07-27 Andrey Itkin , Dmitry Muravey

In this paper we introduce a new approach to model-free path-dependent option pricing. We first introduce a general duality result for linear optimisation problems over signed measures introduced in [3] and show how the the problem of…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2015-01-16 Raphael Hauser , Sergey Shahverdyan

We study an American option pricing problem with liquidity risks and transaction fees. As endogenous transaction costs, liquidity risks of the underlying asset are modeled by a mean-reverting process. Transaction fees are exogenous…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-09-08 Dong Yan , Xin-Jie Huang , Guiyuan Ma , Xin-Jiang He

This study investigates enhancing option pricing by extending the Black-Scholes model to include stochastic volatility and interest rate variability within the Partial Differential Equation (PDE). The PDE is solved using the finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Nikhil Shivakumar Nayak

In this paper we reformulate the problem of pricing options in a quantum setting. Our proposed algorithm involves preparing an initial state, representing the option price, and then evolving it using existing imaginary time simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Santosh Kumar Radha

The aim of this paper is to present a simple stochastic model that accounts for the effects of a long-memory in volatility on option pricing. The starting point is the stochastic Black-Scholes equation involving volatility with long-range…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-02 Sergei Fedotov , Abby Tan

We present an adaptive approach for valuing the European call option on assets with stochastic volatility. The essential feature of the method is a reduction of uncertainty in latent volatility due to a Bayesian learning procedure. Starting…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-02 Sergei Fedotov , Stephanos Panayides

Isogeometric analysis is a recently developed computational approach that integrates finite element analysis directly into design described by non-uniform rational B-splines (NURBS). In this paper we show that price surfaces that occur in…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-10-02 Jan Pospíšil , Vladimír Švígler

We study the approximation of $\mathbb{E}f(X_T)$ by a Monte Carlo algorithm, where $X$ is the solution of a stochastic differential equation and $f$ is a given function. We introduce a new variance reduction method, which can be viewed as a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ahmed Kebaier

This paper proposes a numerical method for pricing foreign exchange (FX) options in a model which deals with stochastic interest rates and stochastic volatility of the FX rate. The model considers four stochastic drivers, each represented…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-03-05 Fazlollah Soleymani , Andrey Itkin

The instability of the Ivancevic option pricing model is studied through the variational method. We have analytically derived the dispersion relation of the IOPM for both constant volatility and Landau coefficient model and time-dependent…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-07-18 Christopher Gaafele

In this paper, we further consider the symmetry-based method for seeking nonlocally related systems for partial differential equations. In particular, we show that the symmetry-based method for partial differential equations is the natural…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-15 George W. Bluman , Rafael de la Rosa

In the first quarter of 2006 Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) introduced, as one of the listed products, options on its implied volatility index (VIX). This created the challenge of developing a pricing framework that can…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2009-05-14 Claudio Albanese , Harry Lo , Aleksandar Mijatović

In this article, Lie symmetry analysis is used to investigate invariance properties of some nonlinear fractional partial differential equations with conformable fractional time and space derivatives. The analysis is applied to Korteweg-de…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 B. A. Tayyan , A. H. Sakka

In mathematical finance a popular approach for pricing options under some Levy model is to consider underlying that follows a Poisson jump diffusion process. As it is well known this results in a partial integro-differential equation (PIDE)…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2010-02-11 Andrey Itkin , Peter Carr