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This paper develops a coupled model for day-ahead electricity prices and average daily temperature which allows to model quanto weather and energy derivatives. These products have gained on popularity as they enable to hedge against both…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2024-04-22 Aurélien Alfonsi , Nerea Vadillo

We present a neural network based calibration method that performs the calibration task within a few milliseconds for the full implied volatility surface. The framework is consistently applicable throughout a range of volatility models…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-08-26 Blanka Horvath , Aitor Muguruza , Mehdi Tomas

Managing exotic derivatives requires accurate mark-to-market pricing and stable Greeks for reliable hedging. The Local Volatility (LV) model distinguishes itself from other pricing models by its ability to match observable market prices…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-09-24 Ruozhong Yang , Hao Qin , Charlie Che , Liming Feng

This paper presents closed-form analytical formulas for pricing volatility and variance derivatives with nonlinear payoffs under discrete-time observations. The analysis is based on a probabilistic approach assuming that the underlying…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Nontawat Bunchak , Udomsak Rakwongwan , Phiraphat Sutthimat

American and Bermudan-type financial instruments are often priced with specific Monte Carlo techniques whose efficiency critically depends on the effective dimensionality of the problem and the available computational power. In our work we…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2021-05-04 Riccardo Aiolfi , Nicola Moreni , Marco Bianchetti , Marco Scaringi , Filippo Fogliani

In this paper, our focus lies on the Merton's jump diffusion model, employing jump processes characterized by the compound Poisson process. Our primary objective is to forecast the drift and volatility of the model using a variety of…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-05-24 Ayush Singh , Anshu K. Jha , Amit N. Kumar

In this paper, we present a reproducible benchmarking framework that systematically compares QML models with architecture-matched classical counterparts across three financial tasks: (i) directional return prediction on U.S. and Turkish…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Rehan Ahmad , Muhammad Kashif , Nouhaila Innan , Muhammad Shafique

We tackle the calibration of the so-called Stochastic-Local Volatility (SLV) model. This is the class of financial models that combines the local and stochastic volatility features and has been subject of the attention by many researchers…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-11-09 Yuri F. Saporito , Xu Yang , Jorge P. Zubelli

The aim of this study was to develop methods for evaluating the American-style option prices when the volatility of the underlying asset is described by a stochastic process. As part of this problem were developed techniques for modeling…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2010-09-29 Yu. A. Kuperin , P. A. Poloskov

In this paper, we present a very fast Monte Carlo scheme for additive processes: the computational time is of the same order of magnitude of standard algorithms for Brownian motions. We analyze in detail numerical error sources and propose…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-07-17 Michele Azzone , Roberto Baviera

In this paper we consider the pricing of variable annuities (VAs) with guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefits. We consider two pricing approaches, the classical risk-neutral approach and the benchmark approach, and we examine the associated…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2019-06-05 Jin Sun , Kevin Fergusson , Eckhard Platen , Pavel V. Shevchenko

The pricing of derivatives tied to baskets of assets demands a sophisticated framework that aligns with the available market information to capture the intricate non-linear dependency structure among the assets. We describe the dynamics of…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-10-13 Nicola F. Zaugg , Lech A. Grzelak

We introduce a simulation method for dynamic portfolio valuation and risk management building on machine learning with kernels. We learn the dynamic value process of a portfolio from a finite sample of its cumulative cash flow. The learned…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-05-28 Lotfi Boudabsa , Damir Filipovic

We study a two-dimensional McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equation, whose volatility coefficient depends on the conditional distribution of the second component with respect to the first component. We prove the strong existence and…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Scander Mustapha

The Bass Local Volatility Model (Bass-LV), as studied in [Conze and Henry-Labordere, 2021], stands out for its ability to eliminate the need for interpolation between maturities. This offers a significant advantage over traditional LV…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-05-14 Hao Qin , Charlie Che , Ruozhong Yang , Liming Feng

A popular machine-learning model for regression tasks, including stock-market prediction, weather forecasting and real-estate pricing, is the classical support vector regression (SVR). However, a practically realisable quantum SVR remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Archismita Dalal , Mohsen Bagherimehrab , Barry C. Sanders

In stochastic Volterra rough volatility models, the volatility follows a truncated Brownian semi-stationary process with stochastic vol-of-vol. Recently, efficient VIX pricing Monte Carlo methods have been proposed for the case where the…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2023-11-06 Henrique Guerreiro , João Guerra

Quantum Monte Carlo method is applied to fractional quantum Hall systems. The use of the linear programming method enables us to avoid the negative-sign problem in the Quantum Monte Carlo calculations. The formulation of this method and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sei Suzuki , Tatsuya Nakajima

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the problem of option pricing when the short rate follows subdiffusive fractional Merton model. We incorporate the stochastic nature of the short rate in our option valuation model and derive explicit…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2018-05-03 Foad Shokrollahi

The paper builds a Variance-Gamma (VG) model with five parameters: location ($\mu$), symmetry ($\delta$), volatility ($\sigma$), shape ($\alpha$), and scale ($\theta$); and studies its application to the pricing of European options. The…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2023-01-18 A. H. Nzokem