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For an exponential utility maximizing investment strategy in a Black-Scholes Setting, fixed upper and lower constraints are introduced on the terminal wealth. This is equivalent to combining the optimal strategy with options. The resulting…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2017-12-05 Lena Schutte

The Black-Scholes option pricing model remains a cornerstone in financial mathematics, yet its application is often challenged by the need for accurate hedging strategies, especially in dynamic market environments. This paper presents a…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-05-07 Agni Rakshit , Gautam Bandyopadhyay , Tanujit Chakraborty

It turns out that in the bivariate Black-Scholes economy Margrabe type options exhibit symmetry properties leading to semi-static hedges of rather general barrier options. Some of the results are extended to variants obtained by means of…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2010-02-12 Michael Schmutz

This paper presents a novel way to predict options price for one day in advance, utilizing the method of Quasi-Reversibility for solving the Black-Scholes equation. The Black-Scholes equation solved forwards in time with Tikhonov…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Mikhail V. Klibanov , Kirill V. Golubnichiy , Andrey V. Nikitin

We investigate qualitative and quantitative behavior of a solution of the mathematical model for pricing American style of perpetual put options. We assume the option price is a solution to the stationary generalized Black-Scholes equation…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-11-09 Maria do Rosario Grossinho , Yaser Kord Faghan , Daniel Sevcovic

It is known that the probability is not a conserved quantity in the stock market, given the fact that it corresponds to an open system. In this paper we analyze the flow of probability in this system by expressing the ideal Black-Scholes…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-01-03 Ivan Arraut , Alan Au , Alan Ching-biu Tse , Joao Alexandre Lobo Marques

Option pricing formulas are derived from a non-Gaussian model of stock returns. Fluctuations are assumed to evolve according to a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation which maximizes the Tsallis nonextensive entropy of index $q$. A generalized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-10 Lisa Borland

In this paper we study nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) that are used to model different value adjustments denoted generally as xVA. These adjustments are nowadays commonly added to the risk-free financial derivative values…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-03 Falko Baustian , Jan Pospíšil , Vladimír Švígler

The author presents alternatives to the Black-Scholes european call option pricing model by incorporating different transaction cost structures in the replicating strategy. In particular, an exponentially decreasing structure is proposed…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2021-12-21 F. G. Bellora , G. Mazzei , M. Maurette

This paper refutes the claim that the expected rate of return of the underlying asset plays no role in the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model.

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-11 Kuo-Ping Chang

We study scaled trinomial models converging to the Black--Scholes model, and analyze exponential certainty-equivalent prices for path-dependent European options. As the number of trading dates $n$ tends to infinity and the risk aversion is…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-01 Yan Dolinsky , Xin Zhang

Employing the Klein-Gordon equation, we propose a generalized Black-Scholes equation. In addition, we found a limit where this generalized equation is invariant under conformal transformations, in particular invariant under scale…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-04-07 Juan M. Romero , Ilse B. Zubieta-Martínez

Black-Scholes equation as one of the most celebrated mathematical models has an explicit analytical solution known as the Black-Scholes formula. Later variations of the equation, such as fractional or nonlinear Black-Scholes equations, do…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-04-27 Endah R. M. Putri , Lutfi Mardianto , Amirul Hakam , Chairul Imron , Hadi Susanto

We propose the deep parametric PDE method to solve high-dimensional parametric partial differential equations. A single neural network approximates the solution of a whole family of PDEs after being trained without the need of sample…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-12-14 Kathrin Glau , Linus Wunderlich

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

The standard Black-Scholes theory of option pricing is extended to cope with underlying return fluctuations described by general probability distributions. A Langevin process and its related Fokker-Planck equation are devised to model the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Moriconi

This paper develops a model that incorporates the presence of stochastic arbitrage explicitly in the Black--Scholes equation. Here, the arbitrage is generated by a stochastic bubble, which generalizes the deterministic arbitrage model…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-09-15 Mauricio Contreras G

In this paper we analyze a nonlinear Black--Scholes model for option pricing under variable transaction costs. The diffusion coefficient of the nonlinear parabolic equation for the price $V$ is assumed to be a function of the underlying…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2016-03-15 Daniel Sevcovic , Magdalena Zitnanska

On a multi-assets Black-Scholes economy, we introduce a class of barrier options. In this model we apply a generalized reflection principle in a context of the finite reflection group acting on a Euclidean space to give a valuation formula…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2012-11-09 Yuri Imamura , Katsuya Takagi

We proposed classification models that utilize the result from the Quasi-Reversibility Method, which solves the Black-Scholes equation to forecast the option prices one day in advance. Combining the minimizer from QRM with our machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Benjamin Jiang , Matthieu Durieux , Kirill V. Golubnichiy