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48 results for European baskets

Study bounds for European basket call options in a discrete-time market model with price jumps.

problem Bounding the prices of European basket call options in a market model with price jumps.
method Computed bounds using a binomial model and proved that the lower bound coincides with Jensen's bound.
result The upper bound of the price interval of European basket call options can be computed by restricting to a binomial model.

The paper develops Hawkes-based models for LOB and applies them to European, spread, and basket option pricing.

problem Developing accurate models for pricing options in the context of limit order books (LOB).
method Introduces multivariate Hawkes processes and their limit theorems, applies to European, spread, and basket options.
result Hawkes-based models provide more market forecast information than classical models.

We present a new high-order compact scheme for the multi-dimensional Black-Scholes model with application to European Put options on a basket of two underlying assets. The scheme is second-order accurate in time and fourth-order accurate in space. Numerical examples confirm that a standard second-order finite differenc…

2015-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Generative model prices basket options efficiently.

problem Real-time pricing of basket options with varying market inputs.
method Truncated path signatures and Mixture Density Networks (MDN) for learning the terminal density.
result The model produces small pricing errors and matches Monte Carlo simulations closely.

We consider the problem of computing upper and lower bounds on the price of a European basket call option, given prices on other similar baskets. Although this problem is very hard to solve exactly in the general case, we show that in some instances the upper and lower bounds can be computed via simple closed-form expr…

2003-02-19abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper uses basket option formulas to price vanilla options with discrete dividends.

problem Pricing vanilla options on stocks with discrete cash dividends.
method Uses existing basket option formulas for European options on a single asset with cash dividends in the piecewise lognormal model.
result Explains the use of basket option formulas for a specific problem in the piecewise lognormal model.

Using neural networks, we compute bounds on the prices of multi-asset derivatives given information on prices of related payoffs. As a main example, we focus on European basket options and include information on the prices of other similar options, such as spread options and/or basket options on subindices. We show tha…

2019-11-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Analytical pricing formulas and Greeks are obtained for European and American basket put options using Mellin transforms. We assume assets are driven by geometric Brownian motion which exhibit correlation and pay a continuous dividend rate. A novel approach to numerical Mellin inversion is achieved via the fast Fourier…

2014-03-15abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper provides formulas for minimum cost super-hedging in a multi-asset binomial market.

problem Finding minimum cost super-hedging strategies in a multi-asset, incomplete market model.
method Explicit formulas for minimum cost super-hedging strategies for various European type multi-asset contingent claims.
result Explicit formulas for non-negative local residuals of super-hedging strategies.

We develop generic and efficient importance sampling estimators for Monte Carlo evaluation of prices of single- and multi-asset European and path-dependent options in asset price models driven by Lévy processes, extending earlier works which focused on the Black-Scholes and continuous stochastic volatility models. Usin…

2016-08-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Tensor network surrogate for efficient option pricing in large portfolios.

problem Large-scale portfolio revaluation problems in market risk management.
method Tensor-train (TT) approximation for high-dimensional price surfaces, direct inference using Laplacian kernel and TT representations.
result Tensor surrogate achieves lower test error and faster evaluation times compared to standard GPR.

This paper examines pricing and hedging strategies for cross-currency equity protection swaps.

problem Dynamic requirements from EPS buyers in cross-currency equity protection swaps.
method Detailed analysis of two hedging paradigms, including separate and aggregated returns, with consideration of different types of returns.
result Proposes various hedging strategies with practical implications for EPS providers and investors.

In the framework of Black-Scholes-Merton model of financial derivatives, a path integral approach to option pricing is presented. A general formula to price European path dependent options on multidimensional assets is obtained and implemented by means of various flexible and efficient algorithms. As an example, we det…

2004-07-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Quantum state preparation framework speeds up basket option pricing.

problem Limited practical benefit of quantum amplitude estimation due to state-preparation depth.
method Structure-aware tensor-train rank-based variational state preparation.
result State-preparation depth scaling replaced with linear scaling, maintaining low basket-pricing errors.

Flat plumbing basket surfaces of links were introduced to study the geometry of the complement of the links. In present article, we study links of the flat plumbing basket numbers 44 or less using a special presentation of the flat plumbing basket surfaces. We find a complete classification theorem of links of the fla…

2014-12-25abs ↗pdf ↗

A flat plumbing basket is a Seifert surface consisting of a disk and bands contained in distinct pages of the disk open book decomposition of the 3-sphere. In this paper, we examine close connections between flat plumbing baskets and the contact structure supported by the open book. As an application we give lower boun…

2017-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Method calibrates basket options using rearranged samples from constituent processes.

problem Calibrate basket options with non-linear dependency structure.
method Propose a method to extract dependency structure from market data through systematic sampling rearrangement, then calibrate a local volatility model.
result Efficiently calibrates basket options with near-perfect accuracy.

A flat plumbing basket is a surface consisting a disk and finitely many bands which are contained in distinct pages of the trivial open book decomposition of S3\mathbf{S}^{3}. In this paper, we construct a Legendrian link from a flat plumbing basket, and we describe a relation among the self-linking number, the Thursto…

2017-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper solves the skewness problem in high-dimensional basket options.

problem Inconsistent skewness between individual stock options and basket options on an index.
method Developed an effective local volatility model and calibrated the basket to the index smile using a jump-diffusion model.
result The method resolves the skewness issue, matching the index smile in basket option prices.

Develops M2 model for next-basket recommendation considering user preferences, item popularity, and transition patterns.

problem Next-basket recommendation problem considering user preferences, item popularity, and transition patterns.
method Mixed model with preferences, popularities, and transitions (M2) using ed-Trans for transition patterns among items.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on all datasets in all tasks, with up to 22.1% improvement.

New method uses tensor networks to price multi-asset options efficiently.

problem Pricing multi-asset options via classical full-grid solvers is computationally infeasible due to the curse of dimensionality.
method Quantized tensor trains (QTT) transform the d-asset Black-Scholes PDE into a tractable high-dimensional problem.
result Full-grid prices and Greeks for correlated basket and max-min options in three to five dimensions can be computed with high accuracy.

Complementary products recommendation is an important problem in e-commerce. Such recommendations increase the average order price and the number of products in baskets. Complementary products are typically inferred from basket data. In this study, we propose the BB2vec model. The BB2vec model learns vector representat…

2018-09-25abs ↗pdf ↗

The study analyzes the differences between physical and risk-neutral correlation estimates for equity baskets.

problem Analyzing the differences between physical and risk-neutral correlation estimates for equity baskets.
method Assumed equicorrelation, reduced dimensionality, approximated ICS from implied volatilities, analyzed dynamics using dynamic semiparametric factor model.
result Proposed profitability improvement schemes based on implied correlation forecasts.

New formulas for pricing Asian and basket options using stochastic expansion.

problem Pricing Asian and basket options under time-dependent parameters.
method Stochastic Taylor expansion around a log-normal proxy model.
result Highly accurate approximations for Asian options and vanilla options with discrete dividends.

New approximations for Asian basket spread options using stochastic Taylor expansions.

problem Pricing Asian basket spread options under the Black-Scholes model.
method Stochastic Taylor expansion applied to a log-normal proxy model.
result Highly accurate approximations for Asian and spread options, without numerical integration.

The paper suggests using derivatives instead of stocks for better utility and risk management.

problem The use of stocks in portfolio construction is challenged.
method The study uses the Black--Scholes--Merton setting to demonstrate the benefits of derivatives for maximizing utility and minimizing risk.
result Two derivatives are sufficient to maximize utility and minimize risk exposure in a two-asset portfolio.

In this paper we give definitions of matrix rates of return which do not depend on the choice of basis describing baskets. We give their economic interpretation. The matrix rate of return describes baskets of arbitrary type and extends portfolio analysis to the complex variable domain. This allows us for simultaneous a…

2006-07-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Study efficient numerical methods for American basket options.

problem Valuation of American basket options.
method Partial differential complementarity problems (PDCPs) and efficient discretization.
result Approximations of American basket options are close and converge favourably.

Recurrent tasks such as pricing, calibration and risk assessment need to be executed accurately and in real-time. Simultaneously we observe an increase in model sophistication on the one hand and growing demands on the quality of risk management on the other. To address the resulting computational challenges, it is nat…

2015-05-18abs ↗pdf ↗

The possibility that the collective dynamics of a set of stocks could lead to a specific basket violating the efficient market hypothesis is investigated. Precisely, we show that it is systematically possible to form a basket with a non-trivial autocorrelation structure when the examined time scales are at the order of…

2010-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

The flat plumbing basket presentation of a link is introduced by Furihata, Hirasawa and Kobayashi. In this paper, we show that the pass-equivalence and an equivalence introduced by using the flat plumbing basket presentation are the same relation. Furthermore, we obtain an evaluation of the minimal number of bands used…

2013-11-14abs ↗pdf ↗

The article models financial asset returns using Gaussian mixtures and EVT-based copulas to price equity options.

problem Modeling financial asset returns and pricing equity options considering extreme values.
method Modeling marginal distributions with Gaussian mixtures and joint dependence structure with EVT-based copulas.
result The approach accurately prices various equity options on Atos and Dassault Systems actions.