Funahashi and Kijima (in press, A chaos expansion approach for the pricing of contingent claims, <italic>Journal of Computational Finance</italic>) have proposed an approximation method based on the Wiener--Ito chaos expansion for the pricing of European-style contingent claims. In this paper, we extend the...

In this paper, we propose an approximation method based on the Wiener-Ito chaos expansion for the pricing of European contingent claims. Our method is applicable to widely used option pricing models such as local volatility models, stochastic volatility models and their combinations. This method...

On May 18, 2014, AT&amp;T Inc., the second-biggest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, agreed to acquire DirecTV, a satellite-television company, for $49 billion in cash and stock. However, the merger’s conditions and terms are complicated as the stock exchange ratio is contingent on the volume-weighted...