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In this paper new analytical and numerical approaches to valuating path-dependent options of European type have been developed. The model of stochastic volatility as a basic model has been chosen. For European options we could improve the…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2010-09-24 Yu. A. Kuperin , P. A. Poloskov

We derive the Black-Scholes-Merton dual equation, which has exactly the same form as the Black-Scholes-Merton equation. The novel and general equation works for options with a payoff of homogeneous of degree one, including European,…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2024-05-20 Shuxin Guo , Qiang Liu

Differential equations can be used to construct predictive models of a diverse set of real-world phenomena like heat transfer, predator-prey interactions, and missile tracking. In our work, we explore one particular application of…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2025-10-28 Brandon Kaplowitz , Siddharth G. Reddy

We derive a closed-form solution for the price of an average price as well as an average strike geometric Asian option, by making use of the path integral formulation. Our results are compared to a numerical Monte Carlo simulation. We also…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2011-09-26 Jeroen P. A. Devreese , Damiaan Lemmens , Jacques Tempere

Contrary to the common view that exact pricing is prohibitive owing to the curse of dimensionality, this study proposes an efficient and unified method for pricing options under multivariate Black-Scholes-Merton (BSM) models, such as the…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2018-05-09 Jaehyuk Choi

In this paper the valuation problem of a European call option in presence of both stochastic volatility and transaction costs is considered. In the limit of small transaction costs and fast mean reversion, an asymptotic expression for the…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2012-11-20 R. E. Caflisch , G. Gambino , M. Sammartino , C. Sgarra

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

Pricing of high-dimensional options is one of the most important problems in Mathematical Finance. The objective of this manuscript is to present an original self-contained treatment of the multidimensional pricing. During the past decades…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-10-27 Alexander Kushpel

This paper implements an efficient numerical algorithm for the time-fractional Black-Scholes model governing European options. The proposed method comprises the Crank-Nicolson approach to discretize the time variable and exponential…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-02-03 Neetu Garg , A. S. V. Ravi Kanth

This paper presents a multinomial method for option pricing when the underlying asset follows an exponential Variance Gamma process. The continuous time Variance Gamma process is approximated by a discrete time Markov chain with the same…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2021-06-18 Nicola Cantarutti , João Guerra

In this paper we provide a quantum Monte Carlo algorithm to solve multidimensional Black-Scholes PDEs with correlation for option pricing. The payoff function of the option is of general form and is only required to be continuous and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Jianjun Chen , Yongming Li , Ariel Neufeld

We discuss two numerical methods, based on a path integral approach described in a previous paper (I), for solving the stochastic equations underlying the financial markets: the Monte Carlo approach, and the Green function deterministic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-10 Marco Rosa-Clot , Stefano Taddei

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

The Black-Scholes model anticipates rather well the observed prices for options in the case of a strike price that is not too far from the current price of the underlying asset. Some useful extensions can be obtained by an adequate…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-10-24 Liviu-Adrian Cotfas , Nicolae Cotfas

In this paper, we investigate a numerical algorithm for the pricing of swing options, relying on the so-called optimal quantization method. The numerical procedure is described in details and numerous simulations are provided to assert its…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2013-04-03 Olivier Aj Bardou , Sandrine Bouthemy , Gilles Pagès

We consider a Black-Scholes type equation arising on a pricing model for a multi-asset option with general transaction costs. The pioneering work of Leland is thus extended in two different ways: on the one hand, the problem is…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-10-01 Pablo Amster , Andres P. Mogni

In this paper we develop numerical pricing methodologies for European style Exchange Options written on a pair of correlated assets, in a market with finite liquidity. In contrast to the standard multi-asset Black-Scholes framework, trading…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2020-06-16 Kevin S. Zhang , Traian A. Pirvu

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

Black-Scholes implied volatility is a quantile. The insight follows from the normalized option price being a probability on the variance scale, with the inverse Gaussian distribution providing the link. It enables analytically exact and…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-19 Wolfgang Schadner

We propose a numerical procedure for computing the prices of European options, in which the underlying asset price is a Markovian strict local martingale. If the underlying process is a strict local martingale and the payoff is of linear…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-04-23 Yukihiro Tsuzuki