In this paper, we present three new discretization schemes for the Heston stochastic volatility model - two schemes for simulating the variance process and one scheme for simulating the integrated variance process conditional on the initial and the end-point of the variance process. Instead of...

We incorporate a simple and effective control-variate into Fourier inversion formulas for vanilla option prices. The control-variate used in this paper is the Black-Scholes formula whose volatility parameter is determined in a generic non-arbitrary fashion. We analyze contour dependence both in...