Study reveals finite-size effects and sensitivity to random numbers in Levy-Levy-Solomon model.
problem Finite-size effects and sensitivity to random numbers in Levy-Levy-Solomon model.
method Simulations and analysis of Levy-Levy-Solomon model with different random number generators and stopping criteria.
result Low-quality pseudo random number generators significantly impact simulation results.
Stock market price fluctuations follow Lévy's stable distribution over long term.
problem Understanding the stability of stock market price fluctuations over different time scales.
method Estimated Lévy's stable parameters from four stock markets over long and short term.
result Stable parameters from different stock markets showed a unique value over long term, but fluctuated with correlation in short term.
Paper calculates perpetual American put option pricing with drawdown event in Lévy market.
problem Pricing perpetual American put options with a drawdown event in a Lévy market.
method Derives explicit price using geometric Lévy process with downward jumps, optimal stopping rule, and martingale arguments.
result Optimal stopping rule is the first time asset price falls below a specific value.
Study Asian option pricing in NIG and VG Levy markets.
problem Value of Asian options in incomplete Levy markets.
method Two methods of constructing risk-neutral measures.
result Both methods generally produce similar prices.
Study extends Lévy models to capture market propagation delays.
problem Capturing sudden events in related markets with stochastic delays.
method Extend multivariate Lévy models using self-decomposability and multivariate subordination.
result Derived closed-form expressions for characteristic function and implemented Monte Carlo scheme.
Modified model predicts stock price jumps using Twitter sentiment.
problem Predicting stock price jumps based on market sentiment.
method Modified Levy jump-diffusion model with memory from Twitter sentiment, optimized with UKF.
result Algorithm provides good performance in identifying asset return trends.
Study develops time-continuous models and probabilistic descriptions for agent-based economic market models.
problem Formulating and describing agent-based economic market models in a time-continuous and probabilistic manner.
method Derived time-continuous formulations, discussed impact of time-scaling, proved stability, presented probabilistic descriptions using kinetic theory.
result Time-continuous formulations and probabilistic descriptions for agent-based economic market models.
The problem of completeness of the forward rate based bond market model driven by a Lévy process under the physical measure is examined. The incompleteness of market in the case when the Lévy measure has a density function is shown. The required elements of the theory of stochastic integration over the compensated jump…
This review deals with several microscopic (``agent-based'') models of financial markets which have been studied by economists and physicists over the last decade: Kim-Markowitz, Levy-Levy-Solomon, Cont-Bouchaud, Solomon-Weisbuch, Lux-Marchesi, Donangelo-Sneppen and Solomon-Levy-Huang. After an overview of simulation a…
These lectures notes aim at introducing Lévy processes in an informal and intuitive way, accessible to non-specialists in the field. In the first part, we focus on the theory of Lévy processes. We analyze a `toy' example of a Lévy process, viz. a Lévy jump-diffusion, which yet offers significant insight into the distri…
Proposes second-order Esscher transform for Lévy models in financial markets.
problem Risk management and quantification in markets with jumps and Lévy dynamics.
method Derives densities, equivalent measures, and pricing formulas for European call options.
result Option prices are bounded and monotonic with the second-order Esscher parameter.
Price fluctuations of commodities like cotton and wheat are thought to display probability distributions of returns that follow a Lévy stable distribution. Recent analysis of stocks and foreign exchange markets show that the probability distributions are not Lévy stable, a plausible result since commodity markets have …
The study evaluates tradeability in markets using Lévy models.
problem Market illiquidity and its impact on asset prices.
method Adapting McDonald and Siegel's problem, deriving tradeability premiums and solving free-boundary problems.
result A simple method to compute non-tradeability values and express non-tradeable asset prices as a percentage of tradeable equivalents.
Develops Bilateral Gamma processes for financial market modeling.
problem Modeling financial market fluctuations with Lévy processes.
method Exploration of bilateral Gamma distributions and their Lévy processes.
result Validates Bilateral Gamma processes on real financial data.
Optimal liquidation strategy for a risk-averse investor in a one-sided limit order book driven by a Levy process.
problem Balancing market risk and execution cost for a large share liquidation.
method Modeling the price process as a Levy process and solving a singular two-dimensional optimisation problem.
result Explicit expression for the optimal intervention boundary.
This paper characterizes cryptocurrency market behavior using Levy's stable distributions.
problem Modeling price fluctuations in cryptocurrency markets with fat tails and scaling phenomena.
method Characterization using Levy's stable distribution with α≃1.4 under certain time intervals, employing Parseval's relation and GCLT. result Price fluctuations in cryptocurrency markets can be well described by Levy's stable distribution.
The completeness problem of the bond market model with the random factors determined by a Wiener process and Poisson random measure is studied. Hedging portfolios use bonds with maturities in a countable, dense subset of a finite time interval. It is shown that under natural assumptions the market is not complete unles…
Optimizes asset allocation for risk measures in a Lévy market.
problem Maximizing time-consistent mean-risk reward with general risk measures.
method Uses a generalized Lévy market model and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation.
result Deterministic optimal solution under certain conditions.
Develops a new model for multi-currency volatility using CBI-time-changed Lévy processes.
problem Capturing the risk characteristics of FX markets and their self-exciting dynamics.
method CBI-time-changed Lévy processes, affine processes, Fourier methods, deep-learning techniques.
result An analytically tractable model with a semi-closed pricing formula for currency options.
In this paper, we implement and test two types of market-based models for European-type options, based on the tangent Levy models proposed recently by R. Carmona and S. Nadtochiy. As a result, we obtain a method for generating Monte Carlo samples of future paths of implied volatility surfaces. These paths and the surfa…
A new model uses a Levy-driven process to value credit index swaptions.
problem Valuation of credit index swaptions in financial markets.
method Proposes a Levy-driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process to model risk-free rate and default intensities.
result Derives formulas for characteristic function, moments, and stationary distribution.
Develops a new model for interest rates allowing negative rates and superior calibration.
problem Current market environment with negative interest rates and poor calibration of existing models.
method Forward price process approach using time-inhomogeneous Lévy processes.
result The model allows for negative interest rates and superior calibration properties.
This paper gives examples of explicit arbitrage-free term structure models with Lévy jumps via state price density approach. By generalizing quadratic Gaussian models, it is found that the probability density function of a Lévy process is a "natural" scale for the process to be the state variable of a market.
Optimizes resource extraction in fluctuating markets with financial constraints.
problem Optimizing extraction of nonrenewable resources in a volatile market.
method Formulates as an optimal stopping and control problem, uses viscosity solutions and finite difference approximations.
result Proves the value function is the unique viscosity solution and converges in approximations.
Models for financial assets with jumps and Brownian motion.
problem Understanding asset prices with jumps and their returns.
method Lévy-Ito models with Brownian motion and Poisson measure.
result Excess return rates calculated for risky assets.
Enhancing the Black-Scholes model with Lévy processes and Malliavin calculus
problem Improving option valuation by incorporating stochastic volatility and jumps
method Deriving a pricing formula and exact implied volatility using multidimensional Itô calculus and Malliavin calculus
result Better capture of empirical features like volatility smiles
A market with defaultable bonds where the bond dynamics is in a Heath-Jarrow-Morton setting and the forward rates are driven by an infinite number of Levy factors is considered. The setting includes rating migrations driven by a Markov chain. All basic types of recovery are investigated. We formulate necessary and suff…
The study examines order flow in financial markets using fractional Lévy stable motion.
problem Challenges in selecting the best models for financial time series data.
method Investigates order disbalance time series from the perspective of fractional Lévy stable motion.
result Orders exhibit stable anti-correlation for 18 randomly selected stocks.
Study optimizes natural gas power plant valuation using Levy copulas and regime-switching models.
problem Optimizing the valuation and operation of natural gas-fired power plants under market fluctuations.
method Stochastic control problem, Levy regime-switching model, skewed Levy copulas, HJB equation, finite difference method.
result Numerical method provides optimal operating strategies and plant values based on market prices and conditions.
The paper offers a new model for variable annuities with surrender risk.
problem Modeling variable annuities with surrender risk and market consistency.
method Hybrid model with Lévy processes, time-inhomogeneous, and dependence between financial and surrender risks.
result Explicit analytical formulas and practical numerical procedures for variable annuity valuation.
Financial time series typically exhibit strong fluctuations that cannot be described by a Gaussian distribution. In recent empirical studies of stock market indices it was examined whether the distribution P(r) of returns r(tau) after some time tau can be described by a (truncated) Levy-stable distribution L_{alpha}(r)…
We study a stochastic multiplicative system composed of finite asynchronous elements to describe the wealth evolution in financial markets. We find that the wealth fluctuations or returns of this system can be described by a walk with correlated step sizes obeying truncated Levy-like distribution, and the cross-correla…
Study optimal portfolio in intraday electricity markets using Lévy-Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes.
problem Maximizing expected terminal utility in a single risky asset market.
method Model power prices with mean-reverting additive process, solve HJB equation for logarithmic utility.
result Explicit solution for optimal strategy, numerical and analytical methods available.
Optimal hedging strategy found in markets with incomplete pricing kernels.
problem Finding optimal hedging in markets with incomplete pricing kernels.
method Demonstrated existence of an optimal hedge portfolio using an expected least squared-error criterion.
result Existence of an optimal hedge portfolio in Lévy-Ito markets.
Introduces a new Lévy process for modeling illiquid markets.
problem Modeling dynamic of assets in illiquid markets.
method Introduces Variance Gamma++ process, a new Lévy process, and provides efficient path simulation algorithms.
result Efficient pricing formula and parameter estimation for European options.
Modeling financial market dynamics with 2D Levy flights.
problem Capturing the complex, scaling laws in financial market dynamics.
method 2D Lévy flight model applied to S\&P 500 index prices.
result Empirical spectral properties match model predictions.
This paper considers the modelling of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). We propose a top-down model via forward rates generalizing Filipović, Overbeck and Schmidt (2009) to the case where the forward rates are driven by a finite dimensional Lévy process. The contribution of this work is twofold: we provide condit…
Random matrix theory is used to assess the significance of weak correlations and is well established for Gaussian statistics. However, many complex systems, with stock markets as a prominent example, exhibit statistics with power-law tails, that can be modelled with Levy stable distributions. We review comprehensively …
The important application of semi-static hedging in financial markets naturally leads to the notion of quasi self-dual processes. The focus of our study is to give new characterizations of quasi self-duality for exponential Lévy processes such that the resulting market does not admit arbitrage opportunities. We derive …
Paper proves existence and uniqueness of solutions to PIDEs in Bessel spaces for option pricing.
problem Existence and uniqueness of solutions to PIDEs in Bessel spaces.
method Abstract semilinear parabolic equations and Bessel potential spaces.
result Proves existence and uniqueness of solutions in Bessel potential spaces.
The LIBOR market model is very popular for pricing interest rate derivatives, but is known to have several pitfalls. In addition, if the model is driven by a jump process, then the complexity of the drift term is growing exponentially fast (as a function of the tenor length). In this work, we consider a Lévy-driven LIB…
Derives an option-pricing formula for fractional markets with skew and smile.
problem Developing a pricing formula for financial options with skew and smile.
method Employed the Lévy-Khintchine theorem and fractional Gaussian noise to generalize the Black-Scholes-Merton formula.
result An exponentially convergent option-pricing formula for fractional markets.
In this paper we present a very simple way to price a class of barrier options when the underlying process is driven by a huge class of Lévy processes. To achieve our goal we assume that our market satisfies a symmetry property. In case of not satisfying that property some approximations can be obtained.
The so-called Pareto-Levy or power-law distribution has been successfully used as a model to describe probabilities associated to extreme variations of worldwide stock markets indexes data and it has the form Pr(X>x) x∗∗(−alpha)forgamma<x<infinity.Theselectionofthethresholdparametergamma from empirical d…
Reformulates Vasicek model for Lévy processes, deriving bond prices and long bond returns.
problem Deriving bond prices and interest rates in Lévy-Vasicek models.
method Uses pricing kernel method to generalize Vasicek model to Lévy processes.
result Obtained expressions for Lévy-Vasicek bond prices and long bond returns.
Modeling Bitcoin prices and media attention using jump-type processes.
problem Capturing the dynamics of Bitcoin prices and media attention.
method Lévy processes and semiparametric estimation.
result Effective modeling of Bitcoin prices and media attention using Lévy processes.
The concepts of scale invariance, self-similarity and scaling have been fruitfully applied to the study of price fluctuations in financial markets. After a brief review of the properties of stable Levy distributions and their applications to market data we indicate the shortcomings of such models and describe the trunc…
Paper models non-maturing deposits using a Lévy-driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process.
problem Managing non-maturing deposits as a major funding source for banks.
method Develops a multivariate Lévy-driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process with three sources of randomness.
result Models rare but severe events in deposit volumes with positive probability.