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A new approach to continuous-time universal portfolios using pathwise Itô calculus.
Study on stochastic mean curvature flow on networks using Ito calculus.
Dupire's functional Itô calculus provides an alternative approach to the classical Malliavin calculus for the computation of sensitivities, also called Greeks, of path-dependent derivatives prices. In this paper, we introduce a measure of path-dependence of functionals within the functional Itô calculus framework. Name…
Developed a machine-checked Itô calculus for Brownian motion.
We use pathwise Itô calculus to prove two strictly pathwise versions of the master formula in Fernholz' stochastic portfolio theory. Our first version is set within the framework of Föllmer's pathwise Itô calculus and works for portfolios generated from functions that may depend on the current states of the market port…
A machine-checked Itô calculus for Brownian motion on
Options financial instruments designed to protect investors from the stock market randomness. In 1973, Fisher Black, Myron Scholes and Robert Merton proposed a very popular option pricing method using stochastic differential equations within the Ito interpretation. Herein, we derive the Black-Scholes equation for the o…
Develops a new calculus for stochastic processes with occupation flows.
Derives FPDE for equity-linked insurance pricing.
We consider idealized financial markets in which price paths of the traded securities are cadlag functions, imposing mild restrictions on the allowed size of jumps. We prove the existence of quadratic variation for typical price paths, where the qualification "typical" means that there is a trading strategy that risks …
NANSDE-Net models time series with memory using neural ARMA-type noise.
We consider a standard optimal investment problem in a complete financial market driven by a Wiener process and derive an explicit formula for the optimal portfolio process in terms of the vertical derivative from functional It^o calculus. An advantage with this approach compared to the Malliavin calculus approach is t…
The paper provides an efficient method to price path-dependent derivatives using multiscale stochastic volatility models.
A model for insider trading with past price dependencies.
We present new stochastic differential equations, that are more general and simpler than the existing Ito-based stochastic differential equations. As an example, we apply our approach to the investment (portfolio) model.
Formula for option pricing in a stochastic volatility model with jumps.
An explicit martingale representation for random variables described as a functional of a Levy process will be given. The Clark-Ocone theorem shows that integrands appeared in a martingale representation are given by conditional expectations of Malliavin derivatives. Our goal is to extend it to random variables which a…
In a 2006 article (\cite{A1}), Allouba gave his quadratic covariation differentiation theory for Itô's integral calculus. He defined the derivative of a semimartingale with respect to a Brownian motion as the time derivative of their quadratic covariation and a generalization thereof. He then obtained a systematic diff…
A new option pricing model uses a time-varying Hurst exponent for more accurate financial predictions.
Derives functional Itô formula for non-anticipative maps of rough paths.
Enhancing the Black-Scholes model with Lévy processes and Malliavin calculus
Study pricing of American put options with stochastic interest rate and finite maturity.
Researchers develop Malliavin calculus for signatures, simplifying option Greeks computation.
This work explores functional expansions to handle path dependence in various fields.
The objective of the note is to remind readers on how self-financing works in Quantitative Finance. The authors have observed continuing uncertainty on this issue which may be because it lies exactly at the intersection of stochastic calculus and finance. The concept of a self-financing trading strategy was originally,…
Develops portfolio theory without probabilistic analysis, focusing on pathwise decomposition.
Study path-dependent affine models under uncertain parameters for financial applications.
Study on implied volatility of Asian options with stochastic volatility.
The continuous-time random walk (CTRW) is a pure-jump stochastic process with several applications in physics, but also in insurance, finance and economics. A definition is given for a class of stochastic integrals driven by a CTRW, that includes the Ito and Stratonovich cases. An uncoupled CTRW with zero-mean jumps is…
The paper analyzes implied volatility for European and Asian options under stochastic volatility Bachelier model.
We develop a technique based on Malliavin-Bismut calculus ideas, for asymptotic expansion of dual control problems arising in connection with exponential indifference valuation of claims, and with minimisation of relative entropy, in incomplete markets. The problems involve optimisation of a functional of Brownian path…
We consider a strictly pathwise setting for Delta hedging exotic options, based on Föllmer's pathwise Itō calculus. Price trajectories are -dimensional continuous functions whose pathwise quadratic variations and covariations are determined by a given local volatility matrix. The existence of Delta hedging strategie…
We examine in this article the pricing of target volatility options in the lognormal fractional SABR model. A decomposition formula by Ito's calculus yields a theoretical replicating strategy for the target volatility option, assuming the accessibilities of all variance swaps and swaptions. The same formula also sugges…
In order to study the geometry of interest rates market dynamics, Malliavin, Mancino and Recchioni [A non-parametric calibration of the HJM geometry: an application of Itô calculus to financial statistics, {\it Japanese Journal of Mathematics}, 2, pp.55--77, 2007] introduced a scheme, which is based on the Fourier Seri…
Counterexample shows Ito integrand needn't be locally square integrable.
Proposes a probabilistic digital twin for dynamical systems using sparse Bayesian learning.
In this paper, we consider equilibrium strategies under Volterra processes and time-inconsistent preferences embracing mean-variance portfolio selection (MVP). Using a functional Itô calculus approach, we overcome the non-Markovian and non-semimartingale difficulty in Volterra processes. The equilibrium strategy is the…
In this paper, we propose a novel numerical method for Path-Dependent Partial Differential Equations (PPDEs). These equations firstly appeared in the seminal work of Dupire [2009], where the functional Itô calculus was developed to deal with path-dependent financial derivatives contracts. More specificaly, we generaliz…
Projects Markovian processes from Itô semimartingales with jumps.
We consider Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance (CPPI) and its dynamic extension, which may be called Dynamic Proportion Portfolio Insurance (DPPI). It is shown that these investment strategies work within the setting of Föllmer's pathwise Itô calculus, which makes no probabilistic assumptions whatsoever. This show…
Extending Itô's formula to non-smooth functions is important both in theory and applications. One of the fairly general extensions of the formula, known as Meyer-Itô, applies to one dimensional semimartingales and convex functions. There are also satisfactory generalizations of Itô's formula for diffusion processes whe…
New proof and formula linking fusion trees to quantum knot invariants.
In this paper, we extend the first-order asymptotics analysis of Fouque et al. to general path-dependent financial derivatives using Dupire's functional Ito calculus. The main conclusion is that the market group parameters calibrated to vanilla options can be used to price to the same order exotic, path-dependent deriv…
We obtain a decomposition of the call option price for a very general stochastic volatility diffusion model extending the decomposition obtained by E. Alòs in [2] for the Heston model. We realize that a new term arises when the stock price does not follow an exponential model. The techniques used are non anticipative. …
We consider a class of continuous functions on that is of interest from two different perspectives. First, it is closely related to sets of functions that have been studied as generalizations of the Takagi function. Second, each function in admits a linear pathwise quadratic variatio…
The paper calculates Bachelier option prices using Taylor expansions and applies it as a variance reduction technique.
We link SVEs to SPDEs and derive Kolmogorov equations for singular kernels.
Study on stochastic covariant derivatives in curved space-time.