A wide class of hybrid products are evaluated with a model where one of the underlying price follows a local volatility diffusion and the other asset value a log-normal process. Because of the generality for the local volatility function, the numerical pricing is usually much time consuming....

In a complete market with a constant interest rate and a risky asset, which is a linear diffusion process, we are interested in the discrete time hedging of a European vanilla option with payoff function f. As regards the perfect continuous hedging, this discrete time strategy induces, for the...

We give a broad overview of approximation methods to derive analytical formulas for accurate and quick evaluation of option prices. We compare different approaches, from the theoretical point of view regarding the tools they require, and also from the numerical point of view regarding their...

For general time-dependent local volatility models, we propose new approximation formulas for the price of call options. This extends previous results of [BGM10b] where stochastic expansions combined with Malliavin calculus were performed to obtain approximation formulas based on the local...

In the context of an asset paying affine-type discrete dividends, we present closed analytical approximations for the pricing of European vanilla options in the Black-Scholes model with time-dependent parameters. They are obtained using a stochastic Taylor expansion around a shifted lognormal...

We study the problem of estimating the coefficients of a diffusion (Xl, t 2:: 0); the estimation is based on discrete data Xn . . n = 0, 1, ... ,N. The sampling frequency delta t is constant , and asymptotics arc taken at the number of observations tends to infinity. We prove that the problem of...

In the context of an asset paying affine-type discrete dividends, we present closed analytical approximations for the pricing of European vanilla options in the Black--Scholes model with time-dependent parameters. They are obtained using a stochastic Taylor expansion around a shifted lognormal...

We relate the Lp-variation, 2≤p∞, of a solution of a backward stochastic differential equation with a path-dependent terminal condition to a generalized notion of fractional smoothness. This concept of fractional smoothness takes into account the quantitative propagation of singularities in...

For a stopped diffusion process in a multidimensional time-dependent domain , we propose and analyse a new procedure consisting in simulating the process with an Euler scheme with step size [Delta] and stopping it at discrete times in a modified domain, whose boundary has been appropriately...

We study the -time regularity of the Z-component of a Markovian BSDE, whose terminal condition is a function g of a forward SDE (Xt)0=t=T. When g is Lipschitz continuous, Zhang (2004) [18] proved that the related squared -time regularity is of order one with respect to the size of the time mesh....