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The Heston stochastic volatility model is a standard model for valuing financial derivatives, since it can be calibrated using semi-analytical formulas and captures the most basic structure of the market for financial derivatives with…

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We present a novel approach for parameter calibration of the Heston model for pricing an Asian put option, namely space mapping. Since few parameters of the Heston model can be directly extracted from real market data, calibration to real…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Anna Clevenhaus , Claudia Totzeck , Matthias Ehrhardt

The Heston stochastic volatility model is arguably, the most popular stochastic volatility model used to price and risk manage exotic derivatives. In spite of this, it is not necessarily easy to calibrate to the market and obtain stable…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2025-12-23 Jherek Healy

Parametric estimation of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) has been a subject of intense studies already for several decades. The Heston model for instance is driven by two coupled SDEs and is often used in financial mathematics for…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-11-29 Jarosław Gruszka , Janusz Szwabiński

This paper includes a proof of well-posedness of an initial-boundary value problem involving a system of degenerate non-local parabolic PDE which naturally arises in the study of derivative pricing in a generalized market model. In a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Anindya Goswami , Jeeten Patel , Poorva Shevgaonkar

We consider the Heston model as an example of a parameterized parabolic partial differential equation. A space-time variational formulation is derived that allows for parameters in the coefficients (for calibration) as well as choosing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-13 Antonia Mayerhofer , Karsten Urban

Recent years have seen an increased level of interest in pricing equity options under a stochastic volatility model such as the Heston model. Often, simulating a Heston model is difficult, as a standard finite difference scheme may lead to…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2011-11-28 Ian Iscoe , Asif Lakhany

We prove Feynman-Kac formulas for solutions to elliptic and parabolic boundary value and obstacle problems associated with a general Markov diffusion process. Our diffusion model covers several popular stochastic volatility models, such as…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Paul M. N. Feehan , Ruoting Gong , Jian Song

This study focuses on the application of the Heston model to option pricing, employing both theoretical derivations and empirical validations. The Heston model, known for its ability to incorporate stochastic volatility, is derived and…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-10-22 Zheng Cao , Xinhao Lin

American put options are among the most frequently traded single stock options, and their calibration is computationally challenging since no closed-form expression is available. Due to the higher flexibility in comparison to European…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Olena Burkovska , Kathrin Glau , Mirco Mahlstedt , Barbara Wohlmuth

We study a certain one dimensional, degenerate parabolic partial differential equation with a boundary condition which arises in pricing of Asian options. Due to degeneracy of the partial differential operator and the non-smooth boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-02-09 Seick Kim

In this paper we study a general framework of American put option with stochastic volatility whose value function is associated with a 2-dimensional parabolic variational inequality with degenerate boundaries. We apply PDE methods to…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2013-06-04 Chen Xiaoshan , Song Qingshuo

We study second-order hyperbolic equations with degenerate elliptic operators and non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary inputs. We establish existence and regularity of weak solutions in weighted Sobolev spaces under mild assumptions on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Donghui Yang , Jie Zhong

The Heston stochastic volatility model is a widely used tool in financial mathematics for pricing European options. However, its calibration remains computationally intensive and sensitive to local minima due to the model's nonlinear…

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This paper considers the valuation of a European call option under the Heston stochastic volatility model. We present the asymptotic solution to the option pricing problem in powers of the volatility of variance. Then we introduce the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Hongshan Li , Zhongyi Huang

We prove existence of solutions to boundary value problems and obstacle problems for degenerate-elliptic, linear, second-order partial differential operators with partial Dirichlet boundary conditions using a new version of the Perron…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-19 Paul M. N. Feehan

We consider the problem of estimating stochastic volatility for a class of second-order parabolic stochastic PDEs. Assuming that the solution is observed at a high temporal frequency, we use limit theorems for multipower variations and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Carsten Chong

Parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) appear in many disciplines to model the evolution of various mathematical objects, such as probability flows, value functions in control theory, and derivative prices in finance. It is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Xingzi Xu , Ali Hasan , Jie Ding , Vahid Tarokh

This paper presents a methodology to introduce time-dependent parameters for a wide family of models preserving their analytic tractability. This family includes hybrid models with stochastic volatility, stochastic interest-rates, jumps and…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-02 A. Elices

We study the stochastic solution to a Cauchy problem for a degenerate parabolic equation arising from option pricing. When the diffusion coefficient of the underlying price process is locally H\"older continuous with exponent $\delta\in (0,…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Xiaoshan Chen , Yu-Jui Huang , Qingshuo Song , Chao Zhu