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These are course notes on the application of SDEs to options pricing. The author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0739195.
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The Heston model stands out from the class of stochastic volatility (SV) models mainly for two reasons. Firstly, the process for the volatility is non-negative and mean-reverting, which is what we observe in the markets. Secondly, there…