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48 results for Parisian options

In this paper, we price American-style Parisian down-and-in call options under the Black-Scholes framework. Usually, pricing an American-style option is much more difficult than pricing its European-style counterpart because of the appearance of the optimal exercise boundary in the former. Fortunately, the optimal exer…

2015-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper develops methods for pricing American Parisian options under general Markov models.

problem Pricing American Parisian options with various types and payoff functions.
method General approaches using CTMC approximation for time-inhomogeneous Markov models, including state augmentation and variational inequalities.
result Efficient algorithms for pricing American Parisian options confirmed with numerical experiments.

Method calculates Parisian stopping times and option prices using Markov chains.

problem Computing distribution and pricing of Parisian stopping times under Markov processes.
method Continuous-time Markov chain approximation to solve for distribution and convergence analysis.
result Sharp convergence rate and efficient method for diffusion and jump models.

This note re-addresses the Paris barrier options proposed by Yor and collaborators and their valuation using the Laplace transform approach. The notion of Paris barrier options, based on excursion theory and using the Brownian meander, is extended such that their valuation is now possible at any point during their life…

2002-02-28abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we investigate Parisian ruin for a Lévy surplus process with an adaptive premium rate, namely a refracted Lévy process. More general Parisian boundary-crossing problems with a deterministic implementation delay are also considered. Our main contribution is a generalization of the result in Loeffen et al.…

2016-03-30abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes insurance risk with Parisian ruin and capital injection.

problem Analyzing insurance risk with Parisian ruin and capital injection.
method Using fluctuation and excursion theory of spectrally negative Levy processes.
result Distributional identities and ruin probabilities are derived.

In this paper, we study the concept of Parisian ruin under the hybrid observation scheme model introduced by Li et al. \cite{binetal2016}. Under this model, the process is observed at Poisson arrival times whenever the business is financially healthy and it is continuously observed when it goes below 00. The Parisian …

2019-07-23abs ↗pdf ↗

In this note we give, for a spectrally negative Levy process, a compact formula for the Parisian ruin probability, which is defined by the probability that the process exhibits an excursion below zero, with a length that exceeds a certain fixed period r. The formula involves only the scale function of the spectrally ne…

2011-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We study a parsimonious but non-trivial model of the latent limit order book where orders get placed with a fixed displacement from a center price process, i.e.\ some process in-between best bid and best ask, and get executed whenever this center price reaches their level. This mechanism corresponds to the fundamental …

2017-01-04abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we obtain analytical expression for the distribution of the occupation time in the red (below level 00) up to an (independent) exponential horizon for spectrally negative Lévy risk processes and refracted spectrally negative Lévy risk processes. This result improves the existing literature in which only…

2019-03-09abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we introduce an insurance ruin model with adaptive premium rate, thereafter refered to as restructuring/refraction, in which classical ruin and bankruptcy are distinguished. In this model, the premium rate is increased as soon as the wealth process falls into the red zone and is brought back to its regul…

2013-06-19abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper provides fast estimates for complex option types.

problem Estimating prices for constrained multiple exercise American options.
method Lookahead search for lower estimates and nearest-neighbor martingale for upper estimates.
result Probabilistic convergence guarantees for the algorithms.

Study bounds for prices of European and American options with optional termination.

problem Bounding prices of options with potential termination.
method Duality results linking upper prices of vulnerable options to American options with constrained exercise times.
result Linking upper prices of vulnerable options to American options and game options.

There exist several methods how more general options can be priced with call prices. In this article, we extend these results to cover a wider class of options and market models. In particular, we introduce a new pricing formula which can be used to price more general options if prices for call options and digital opti…

2012-07-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Path integral method calculates PDBS option prices with time-dependent parameters.

problem Pricing proportional double-barrier step options with time-dependent interest rates and volatilities.
method Path integral method applied to a quantum mechanical analogy of barrier options.
result Derivation of pricing kernel for PDBS options with time-dependent parameters.

ANNs solve financial option valuation problems without numerical methods.

problem Valuation of European and American financial options.
method Unsupervised learning with artificial neural networks (ANNs) for solving PDEs.
result ANNs accurately compute option values for various stock scenarios.

Fast probabilistic option price predictions using modular Bayesian inference.

problem Accurate probabilistic predictions of future option prices.
method Modular approximate Bayesian inference framework that combines multiple data sources.
result Accurate probabilistic option-price predictions in realistic scenarios.

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.

Efficient method for pricing European and American options using Markov switching stochastic volatility model.

problem Modeling and pricing options under varying volatility and mean-reversion speeds.
method Discrete-time Markov switching stochastic volatility with co-jump model, computationally efficient approach for European options, and conversion to European option pricing for American options.
result Efficient and accurate methods for pricing options, including variance swap analysis.

Paper proposes method for generating paths of stochastic volatility CGMY process for option pricing.

problem Generating accurate sample paths for stochastic volatility models for option pricing.
method Monte-Carlo method for European and American options, least square regression for calibration.
result Calibrated model parameters to S\&P 100 index options market using path-dependent options.

This study compares SPX and VIX options and quantifies their relationship.

problem Understanding the relationship between SPX and VIX options markets.
method Uses moment formulas in a model-free approach to compare implied volatilities.
result SPX options reflect the extreme-strike asymptotics of VIX options and vice versa.

Study on pricing American Exchange options using Lévy processes.

problem Pricing American Exchange options driven by Lévy processes.
method Represented American Exchange options as European options plus early exercise premium; studied properties of free boundary and provided an approximative formula.
result Developed an approximative formula for American Exchange options.

In this paper we extend Buchen's method to develop a new technique for pricing of some exotic options with several expiry dates(more than 3 expiry dates) using a concept of higher order binary option. At first we introduce the concept of higher order binary option and then provide the pricing formulae of nn-th order b…

2013-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

In reinforcement learning (RL), temporal abstraction still remains as an important and unsolved problem. The options framework provided clues to temporal abstraction in the RL, and the option-critic architecture elegantly solved the two problems of finding options and learning RL agents in an end-to-end manner. However…

2019-04-15abs ↗pdf ↗

The study finds no evidence of stochastic arbitrage opportunities in S&P 500 index options.

problem Identifying arbitrage opportunities in S&P 500 index options.
method Developed linear and mixed-integer linear programs to compute the maximum option premium.
result No evidence of systematic stochastic arbitrage opportunities in S&P 500 index options.

The study compares on-chain option prices with a model and finds significant differences.

problem Measuring and comparing on-chain option prices with a model-based benchmark.
method Used a two-regime MS-AR-(GJR)-GARCH model to estimate volatility and GLS to compare prices.
result On-chain option prices are significantly higher than model-based benchmarks, especially for call options.

This paper sets out to provide a general framework for the pricing of average-type options via lower and upper bounds. This class of options includes Asian, basket and options on the volume-weighted average price. We demonstrate that in cases under discussion lower bounds allow for the dimensionality of the problem to …

2016-12-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Learning from demonstration has been widely studied in machine learning but becomes challenging when the demonstrated trajectories are unstructured and follow different objectives. This short-paper proposes PODNet, Plannable Option Discovery Network, addressing how to segment an unstructured set of demonstrated traject…

2019-11-01abs ↗pdf ↗

The options framework is a popular approach for building temporally extended actions in reinforcement learning. In particular, the option-critic architecture provides general purpose policy gradient theorems for learning actions from scratch that are extended in time. However, past work makes the key assumption that ea…

2019-12-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Study proves duality in exotic option pricing under uncertain model and delayed information.

problem Pricing and hedging of multi-action exotic options under nondominated model uncertainty and delayed information.
method Reformulated superhedging problem as a European option problem, proving duality results.
result Superhedging price equals model-based price with future look-up power.