The Heston model stands out from the class of stochastic volatility (SV) models mainly for two reasons. Firstly, the process for the volatility is nonnegative and mean-reverting, which is what we observe in the markets. Secondly, there exists a fast and easily implemented semi-analytical...

We focus on closed-form option pricing in Heston s stochastic volatility model, in which closed-form formulas exist only for few option types. Most of these closed-form solutions are constructed from characteristic functions. We follow this approach and derive multivariate characteristic...

We model the dynamics of asset prices and associated derivatives by consideration of the dynamics of the conditional probability density process for the value of an asset at some specified time in the future. In the case where the asset is driven by Brownian motion, an associated "master...

We consider a stochastic volatility model of the mean-reverting type to describe the evolution of a firm’s values instead of the classical approach by Merton with geometric Brownian motions. We develop an analytical expression for the default probability. Our simulation results indicate that...

This paper develops and analyses convergence properties of a novel multi-level Monte-Carlo (mlMC) method for computing prices and hedging parameters of plain-vanilla European options under a very general $b$-dimensional jump-diffusion model, where $b$ is arbitrary. The model includes stochastic...

One-way coupling often occurs in multi-dimensional stochastic models in finance. In this paper, we develop a highly efficient Monte Carlo (MC) method for pricing European options under a N-dimensional one-way coupled model, where N is arbitrary. The method is based on a combination of (i) the...

American Monte Carlo is a solution to the puzzle of calculating the value of derivatives with the right to an early exercise, when using Monte Carlo simulation. One of the technique uses regression of some suitable basis functions, which is a bit arbitrary, and could if made wrong render in...

In this article we suggest a new method for solutions of stochastic integrals where the dynamics of the variables in integrand are given by some stochastic differential equation. We also propose numerical simulation of stochastic differential equations which is based on iterated integrals method...

We propose a hybrid scheme for the simulation of stochastic Volterra equations. The scheme is a mix of the hybrid scheme for Brownian semistationary processes of Bennedsen et al. [Financ. Stoch., 21(4), 931-965, 2017] and then the multifactor approximations of Abi Jaber et al. [SIAM J. Finan....