This paper proposes a partial differential equation (PDE) approach to calculate coherent risk measures for portfolios of derivatives under the Black-Scholes economy. It enables us to define the risk measures in a dynamic way and to deal with American options in a relatively effective way. Our...

We consider the bond valuation problem when the short rate process is described by a Markovian regime-switching Hull-White model or a Markovian regime-switching Cox-Ingersoll-Ross model. In each of the two short rate models, we establish a Markov-modulated exponential-affine bond price formula...

A model is developed for pricing volatility derivatives, such as variance swaps and volatility swaps under a continuous-time Markov-modulated version of the stochastic volatility (SV) model developed by Heston. In particular, it is supposed that the parameters of this version of Heston's SV...

This article discusses the pricing of derivatives in a continuous-time, hidden Markov-modulated, pure-jump asset price model. The hidden Markov chain modulating the pure-jump asset price model describes the evolution of the hidden state of an economy over time. The market model is incomplete. We...

We outline a two-stage estimation method for a Markov-switching Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedastic (GARCH) model modulated by a hidden Markov chain. The first stage involves the estimation of a hidden Markov chain using the Vitberi algorithm given the model parameters. The...

Credit risk measurement and management are important and current issues in the modern finance world from both the theoretical and practical perspectives. There are two major schools of thought for credit risk analysis, namely the structural models based on the asset value model originally...

This article develops an option valuation model in the context of a discrete-time double Markovian regime-switching (DMRS) model with innovations having a generic distribution. The DMRS model is more flexible than the traditional Markovian regime-switching model in the sense that the drift and...

This paper considers an optimal portfolio selection problem under Markowitz's mean-variance portfolio selection problem in a multi-period regime-switching model. We assume that there are n + 1 securities in the market. Given an economic state which is modelled by a finite state Markov chain, the...

The logarithm of the S&P 500 Index is modelled as a Sato process running at a speed proportional to the current level of the VIX. When the VIX is itself modelled as the exponential of a compound Poisson process with drift, we show that exact expressions are available for the prices of equity...

Index option pricing on world market indices are investigated using Levy processes with no positive jumps. Economically this is motivated by the possible absence of longer horizon short positions while mathematically we are able to evaluate for such processes the probability of a rally before a...