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Large and moderate deviations for importance sampling in the Heston model

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Abstract

We provide a detailed importance sampling analysis for variance reduction in stochastic volatility models. The optimal change of measure is obtained using a variety of results from large and moderate deviations: small-time, large-time, small-noise. Specialising the results to the Heston model, we derive many closed-form solutions, making the whole approach easy to implement. We support our theoretical results with a detailed numerical analysis of the variance reduction gains.

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@article{arxiv.2111.00348,
  title  = {Large and moderate deviations for importance sampling in the Heston model},
  author = {Marc Geha and Antoine Jacquier and Zan Zuric},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.00348},
  year   = {2021}
}

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32 pages, 12 Figures, 7 tables

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