Complex logarithms in Heston‐like models

R Lord, C Kahl - Mathematical Finance: An International …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The characteristic functions of many affine jump‐diffusion models, such as Heston's
stochastic volatility model and all of its extensions, involve multivalued functions such as the …

Option pricing for stochastic volatility model with infinite activity Lévy jumps

X Gong, X Zhuang - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to apply the stochastic volatility model driven by infinite activity
Lévy processes to option pricing which displays infinite activity jumps behaviors and time …

Option pricing for a stochastic-volatility jump-diffusion model with log-uniform jump-amplitudes

G Yan, FB Hanson - 2006 American Control Conference, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An alternative option pricing model is proposed, in which the stock prices follow a diffusion
model with square root stochastic volatility and a jump model with log-uniformly distributed …

The representation of American options prices under stochastic volatility and jump-diffusion dynamics

GHL Cheang, C Chiarella, A Ziogas - Quantitative Finance, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This paper considers the problem of pricing American options when the dynamics of the
underlying are driven by both stochastic volatility following a square-root process as used by …

[PDF][PDF] The relative efficiency of numerical methods for pricing American options under Lévy processes

S Levendorskii, O Kudryavtsev… - Journal of Computational …, 2005 - researchgate.net
We analyze properties of prices of American options under Lévy processes and the related
difficulties for design of accurate and efficient numerical methods for pricing of American …

Pricing path-dependent options with jump risk via Laplace transforms

S Kou, G Petrella, H Wang - The Kyoto Economic Review, 2005 - jlc.jst.go.jp
We present analytical solutions for two-dimensional Laplace transforms of barrier option
prices, as well as an approximation based on Laplace transforms for the prices of finite-time …

Why the rotation count algorithm works

R Lord, C Kahl - 2006 - papers.ssrn.com
The characteristic functions of many affine jump-diffusion models, such as Heston's
stochastic volatility model and all of its extensions, involve multivalued functions such as the …

A unified method for pricing options on diffusion processes

DH Goldenberg - Journal of Financial Economics, 1991 - Elsevier
This paper presents a unified method for closed-form pricing of European options on assets
with diffusion prices. The method uses linear and nonlinear time and scale changes to …

VIX option pricing in a jump-diffusion model

A Sepp - Risk magazine, 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
We first discuss the positive volatility skew observed in the implied volatilities of VIX options.
To model this feature, we apply the square root stochastic variance model with variance …

Exact simulation of option Greeks under stochastic volatility and jump diffusion models

M Broadie, O Kaya - … of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper derives Monte Carlo simulation estimators to compute option price derivatives, ie,
the'Greeks,'under Heston's stochastic volatility model and some variants of it which include …