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In this article, we propose a new numerical approach to high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) arising in the valuation of exotic derivative securities. The proposed method is extended from Reisinger and Wittum (2007) and…
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We propose a method for open-loop stochastic optimal control of LTI systems based on Taylor approximations of quantile functions. This approach enables efficient computation of quantile functions that arise in chance constrained…
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We introduce a general framework that constructs estimators with reduced variance for random walk Metropolis and Metropolis-adjusted Langevin algorithms. The resulting estimators require negligible computational cost and are derived in a…