By Ali Hirsa
ISBN-10: 1439829578
ISBN-13: 9781439829578
As today’s monetary items became extra complicated, quantitative analysts, monetary engineers, and others within the monetary now require strong concepts for numerical research. masking complicated quantitative concepts, Computational equipment in Finance explains how one can remedy advanced sensible equations via numerical equipment.
The first a part of the e-book describes pricing tools for varied derivatives less than various versions. The e-book reports universal procedures for modeling resources in numerous markets. It then examines many computational techniques for pricing derivatives. those contain rework thoughts, corresponding to the short Fourier remodel, the fractional speedy Fourier rework, the Fourier-cosine procedure, and saddlepoint technique; the finite distinction procedure for fixing PDEs within the diffusion framework and PIDEs within the natural leap framework; and Monte Carlo simulation.
The subsequent half makes a speciality of crucial steps in real-world spinoff pricing. the writer discusses tips on how to calibrate version parameters in order that version costs fit with industry costs. He additionally covers numerous filtering suggestions and their implementations and offers examples of filtering and parameter estimation.
Developed from the author’s classes at Columbia college and the Courant Institute of latest York collage, this self-contained textual content is designed for graduate scholars in monetary engineering and mathematical finance in addition to practitioners within the monetary undefined. it is going to aid readers adequately rate an unlimited array of derivatives.
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We can demonstrate that CGMY generalizes Kou’s jump diffusion model [166] (Y = −1), and the variance gamma model [175] (Y = 0). The CGMY process is a particular case of the Kobol process studied by Boyarchenko and Levendorskii in [36] and Carr, Geman, Madan, and Yor in [54], where constant C is allowed to take on different values on the positive and negative semi axes. The extension to VG is very interesting as it allows for control of the sign of large and small jumps. By raising Y above zero, one may induce greater activity near zero and less activity further away from zero.
An additional attractive feature of VG is that it nests the lognormal density and the Black–Scholes formula as a parametric special case. 2 Characteristic Function The characteristic function of a VG process can be obtained by first conditioning on the gamma time g. E(eiuXt |g) = E eiu(θg+σWg ) = eiuθg E eiuσWg = eiuθg E eiuσ = eiuθg e− = eiuθg e = ei(uθ+i (uσ √ √ gZ g)2 2 −u2 σ2 g 2 u2 σ2 2 )g Now to calculate the characteristic function of a VG process, we have to integrate over g. E(eiuXt ) = Eg (ei(uθ+i ∞ = u2 σ2 2 eiuθg e )g ) −u2 σ2 g 2 0 g t/ν−1 e−g/ν dg ν t/ν Γ(t/ν) which is the characteristic function of a gamma process with shape parameter νt and scale 2 2 parameter ν evaluated at uθ + i u 2σ .
The CGMY process is a particular case of the Kobol process studied by Boyarchenko and Levendorskii in [36] and Carr, Geman, Madan, and Yor in [54], where constant C is allowed to take on different values on the positive and negative semi axes. The extension to VG is very interesting as it allows for control of the sign of large and small jumps. By raising Y above zero, one may induce greater activity near zero and less activity further away from zero. There are also some critical values of Y which are of interest: (a) Y = 1 separates finite variation Y < 1 from Y > 1 infinite variation, (b) Y = 0 separates finite arrival rate Y < 0 from Y > 0 infinite arrival rate, (c) Y = −1 separates activity concentrated away from zero Y < −1 from Y > −1 activity concentrated at zero.
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