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We show how the prices of options can be determined with the help of double-fractional differential equation in such a way that their inclusion in a portfolio of stocks provides a more reliable hedge against dramatic price drops that the…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2016-03-11 Hagen Kleinert , Jan Korbel

The pricing of financial derivatives, which requires massive calculations and close-to-real-time operations under many trading and arbitrage scenarios, were largely infeasible in the past. However, with the advancement of modern computing,…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2019-06-18 Wei-Cheng Chen , Wei-Ho Chung

This study investigates enhancing option pricing by extending the Black-Scholes model to include stochastic volatility and interest rate variability within the Partial Differential Equation (PDE). The PDE is solved using the finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Nikhil Shivakumar Nayak

Options have provided a field of much study because of the complexity involved in pricing them. The Black-Scholes equations were developed to price options but they are only valid for European styled options. There is added complexity when…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michael Maio Pires , Tshilidzi Marwala

We generalize a semi-classical path integral approach originally introduced by Giachetti and Tognetti [Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 912 (1985)] and Feynman and Kleinert [Phys. Rev. A 34, 5080 (1986)] to time-dependent Hamiltonians, thus extending…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-08-06 Mark Stedman , Luca Capriotti

Pricing a multi-asset derivative is an important problem in financial engineering, both theoretically and practically. Although it is suitable to numerically solve partial differential equations to calculate the prices of certain types of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-05 Kenji Kubo , Koichi Miyamoto , Kosuke Mitarai , Keisuke Fujii

In this paper, an integral equation representation for the early exercise boundary of an American option contract is considered. Thus far, a number of different techniques have been proposed in the literature to obtain a variety of integral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-03 Khadijeh Nedaiasl , Ali Foroush Bastani , Aysan Rafiee

In this work, we propose an algorithm to price American options by directly solving the dual minimization problem introduced by Rogers. Our approach relies on approximating the set of uniformly square integrable martingales by a finite…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-13 Jérôme Lelong

We introduce a new approach for the numerical pricing of American options. The main idea is to choose a finite number of suitable excessive functions (randomly) and to find the smallest majorant of the gain function in the span of these…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-10-17 Sören Christensen

A new mathematical model for the Black-Scholes equation is proposed to forecast option prices. This model includes new interval for the price of the underlying stock as well as new initial and boundary conditions. Conventional notions of…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-03-13 Michael V. Klibanov , Andrey V. Kuzhuget

Accurate option pricing is essential for effective trading and risk management in financial markets, yet it remains challenging due to market volatility and the limitations of traditional models like Black-Scholes. In this paper, we…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Feliks Bańka , Jarosław A. Chudziak

Pricing financial derivatives, in particular European-style options at different time-maturities and strikes, means a relevant problem in finance. The dynamics describing the price of vanilla options when constant volatilities and interest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-22 Javier Gonzalez-Conde , Ángel Rodríguez-Rozas , Enrique Solano , Mikel Sanz

An American option grants the holder the right to select the time at which to exercise the option, so pricing an American option entails solving an optimal stopping problem. Difficulties in applying standard numerical methods to complex…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paul Glasserman , Bin Yu

A master equation approach to the numerical solution of option pricing models is developed. The basic idea of the approach is to consider the Black--Scholes equation as the macroscopic equation of an underlying mesoscopic stochastic option…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Daniel Faller , Francesco Petruccione

In this paper, we price American-style Parisian down-and-in call options under the Black-Scholes framework. Usually, pricing an American-style option is much more difficult than pricing its European-style counterpart because of the…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2015-11-06 Song-Ping Zhu , Nhat-Tan Le , Wen-Ting Chen , Xiaoping Lu

Assuming that price of the underlying stock is moving in range bound, the Black-Scholes formula for options pricing supports a separation of variables. The resulting time-independent equation is solved employing different behavior of the…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2013-07-24 Ovidiu Racorean

Based on the analog between the stochastic dynamics and quantum harmonic oscillator, we propose a market force driving model to generalize the Black-Scholes model in finance market. We give new schemes of option pricing, in which we can…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-01-05 Pengpeng Li , Shi-Dong Liang

Financial derivative pricing is a significant challenge in finance, involving the valuation of instruments like options based on underlying assets. While some cases have simple solutions, many require complex classical computational methods…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-05-15 Robert Scriba , Yuying Li , Jingbo B Wang

The objective of this paper is to introduce the theory of option pricing for markets with informed traders within the framework of dynamic asset pricing theory. We introduce new models for option pricing for informed traders in complete…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-08-13 Yuan Hu , Abootaleb Shirvani , Stoyan Stoyanov , Young Shin Kim , Frank J. Fabozzi , Svetlozar T. Rachev

The present article provides an efficient and accurate hybrid method to price American standard options in certain jump-diffusion models as well as American barrier-type options under the Black & Scholes framework. Our method generalizes…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-12-03 Ludovic Mathys