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48 results for Levy-driven process

Method verifies if observed data fits Lévy-Driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process.

problem Verifying if observed data fits Lévy-Driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process.
method Estimating parameters and approximating the driving process to test CAR(1) Lévy-driven hypothesis.
result Demonstrates method's effectiveness through simulations and real data examples.

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.

New simulation technique speeds up Lévy-driven OU process pricing.

problem Inefficient Monte Carlo simulations of Lévy-driven OU processes.
method Numerical inversion of characteristic function combined with FFT for fast and accurate simulations.
result The proposed technique is at least one order of magnitude faster than existing methods.

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.

Develops a PD estimation model using Lévy-driven processes for credit risk.

problem Estimating Probability of Default under new IFRS 9 regulations.
method Lévy-driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process with multiple latent variables, Integral Equation and PIDE formulation.
result Existence of weak and strong solutions for PD function, numerical schemes developed.

Characterizes Lévy-driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes linked to tempered stable distributions.

problem Understanding Lévy-driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes and their properties.
method Characterizes the Lévy triplet and deduces transition laws for finite variation Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes associated with tempered stable distributions.
result Provides algorithms for generating skeleton of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes related to exponentially-modulated tempered stable laws.

Lévy driven term structure models have become an important subject in the mathematical finance literature. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the Lévy driven Heath-Jarrow-Morton type term structure equation. This includes a full proof of existence and uniqueness in particular, which seems to have been lack…

2019-07-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Novel weak MLMC scheme for Lévy-driven SDEs, applied to financial derivatives pricing.

problem Approximating solutions to Lévy-driven SDEs for financial derivatives pricing.
method Weak multilevel Monte-Carlo scheme with state space discretization of Lévy processes.
result Efficient approximation of financial derivatives pricing models.

Develops a new model for day-ahead electricity prices using ambit fields.

problem The high-dimensional panel structure of electricity spot prices in European zones.
method Formulates a continuous time framework as an ambit field indexed by a cylinder surface, embedding intrinsic dependence structures.
result The model allows for pricing of derivatives on individual delivery periods, making products like spreads analytically tractable.

We investigate the existence of affine realizations for Lévy driven interest rate term structure models under the real-world probability measure, which so far has only been studied under an assumed risk-neutral probability measure. For models driven by Wiener processes, all results obtained under the risk-neutral appro…

2019-07-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a new bivariate process for energy markets with improved simulation methods.

problem Modelling energy markets with stochastic delays and efficient simulations.
method Introduces a novel bivariate Normal Inverse Gaussian process and a path simulation scheme.
result Improves simulation efficiency for energy market models.

Exact path simulation of the underlying state variable is of great practical importance in simulating prices of financial derivatives or their sensitivities when there are no analytical solutions for their pricing formulas. However, in general, the complex dependence structure inherent in most nontrivial stochastic vol…

2013-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on non-negative solutions for stochastic Volterra equations with jumps.

problem Existence and uniqueness of non-negative solutions for stochastic Volterra equations with jumps and non-Lipschitz coefficients.
method Developed a nonnegative approximation approach and used Yamada--Watanabe approximation technique for convergence proof.
result Established conditions for strong existence and pathwise uniqueness of non-negative solutions.

We derive asymptotic expansions for option data to detect infinite variation volatility.

problem Detecting infinite variation volatility in high-frequency option data.
method Nonparametric higher-order asymptotic expansions for small-time changes of characteristic functions of Itô semimartingales.
result Evidence of infinite variation volatility in high-frequency option data.

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 …

2012-01-24abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the approximation of expectations with respect to the distribution of a latent Markov process given noisy measurements. This is known as the smoothing problem and is often approached with particle and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. These methods provide consistent but biased estimators when run fo…

2019-02-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Study improves parameter estimation for SDEs driven by Levy noise.

problem Challenges in estimating parameters of SDEs with non-Gaussian noises.
method Introduces PEnet, a CNN-LSTM model for efficient parameter estimation.
result PEnet offers superior accuracy and adaptability for various SDE scenarios.

Estimates graph process with high-frequency data, proving asymptotic properties.

problem Estimating graph process with high-frequency data.
method Discretized maximum likelihood estimators for GrOU process under high-frequency sampling.
result Asymptotic central limit theorems for estimators under finite and infinite jump activity.

In this paper we discuss the possibility of using multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) methods for weak approximation schemes. It turns out that by means of a simple coupling between consecutive time discretisation levels, one can achieve the same complexity gain as under the presence of a strong convergence. We exemplify thi…

2014-06-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Pricing of high-dimensional options is one of the most important problems in Mathematical Finance. The objective of this manuscript is to present an original self-contained treatment of the multidimensional pricing. During the past decades the Black-Scholes this model, which essentially is based on the log-normal assum…

2015-10-25abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Pricing of high-dimensional options is a deep problem of the Theoretical Financial Mathematics. In this article we present a new class of Lévy driven models of stock markets. In our opinion, any market model should be based on a transparent and intuitively easily acceptable concept. In our case this is a linear system …

2014-01-08abs ↗pdf ↗

MAFLA improves sampling from heavy-tailed distributions using MH-inspired corrections.

problem Sampling from heavy-tailed and multimodal distributions when neither target nor proposal densities can be evaluated.
method Metropolis-Adjusted Fractional Langevin Algorithm (MAFLA) with Score Balance Matching.
result MAFLA significantly improves finite-time sampling accuracy over unadjusted fractional Langevin dynamics.

Work on SGDm under heavy-tailed noise, revealing its generalization properties.

problem Understanding generalization of SGDm under heavy-tailed noise.
method Analysis of continuous-time limit (SDE) and discrete-time SGDm, establishing generalization bounds.
result SGDm can have worse generalization in the presence of heavy-tailed noise for quadratic loss functions.

This research explains why SGD generalizes better than ADAM in deep learning.

problem Understanding the generalization gap between SGD and ADAM in deep learning.
method Analyzing local convergence behaviors through Levy-driven stochastic differential equations (SDEs).
result SGD is more locally unstable and better escapes from sharp minima to flatter ones, leading to better generalization.

This chapter is an attempt to present a mathematical theory of compound fractional Poisson processes. The chapter begins with the characterization of a well-known Lévy process: The compound Poisson process. The semi-Markov extension of the compound Poisson process naturally leads to the compound fractional Poisson proc…

2011-03-03abs ↗pdf ↗

A deep Neyman-Scott process uses Poisson processes for efficient inference in complex point processes.

problem Efficient inference in complex hierarchical point processes.
method Developed an efficient posterior sampling via Markov chain Monte Carlo for likelihood-based inference.
result More hidden Poisson processes improve likelihood fitting and event prediction.

The study examines Hawkes processes and their long-term behavior.

problem Understanding the long-term behavior of Hawkes processes.
method Proving functional limit theorems under various conditions on the dispersion of child events.
result Functional limit theorems hold for Hawkes processes with different levels of child event dispersion.

Elliptical processes generalize Gaussian and Student-t models with fat tails and computational efficiency.

problem Need for models with fat tails and computational tractability.
method Represent elliptical distributions as continuous mixtures of Gaussian distributions, derive closed-form expressions for marginal and conditional distributions.
result Elliptical processes offer advantages in robust regression compared to Gaussian processes.

We investigate the Student-t process as an alternative to the Gaussian process as a nonparametric prior over functions. We derive closed form expressions for the marginal likelihood and predictive distribution of a Student-t process, by integrating away an inverse Wishart process prior over the covariance kernel of a G…

2014-02-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Efficient methods for Lévy models using SINH-regular processes.

problem Efficient numerical methods for evaluating Lévy models.
method Defining SL-processes and sSL-processes, deriving properties of characteristic exponent, and showing all popular Lévy processes can be subordinated to Brownian motion.
result All crucial properties of characteristic exponent are consequences of a specific representation, and all popular Lévy processes are SL- or sSL-subordinated Brownian motion.

The aim of process discovery, originating from the area of process mining, is to discover a process model based on business process execution data. A majority of process discovery techniques relies on an event log as an input. An event log is a static source of historical data capturing the execution of a business proc…

2017-04-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Researchers study the geometric properties of a specific type of stable processes.

problem Understanding the information geometry of tempered stable processes.
method Derivation of α-divergence, Fisher information matrices, and α-connections.
result Obtained Fisher information matrices and α-connections for statistical manifolds.

This study bridges discrete and continuous state spaces using the Ehrenfest process and diffusion models.

problem Understanding the relationship between discrete and continuous state spaces in stochastic processes.
method Investigates time-continuous Markov jump processes on discrete state spaces and their correspondence to state-continuous diffusion processes.
result The time-reversal of the Ehrenfest process converges to the time-reversed Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, bridging discrete and continuous state spaces.