Barrier Option Pricing and Sensitivity Analysis Based on Facebook

Barrier Option Pricing

This thesis examines the performance of five option pricing models with respect to the pricing of barrier options. The models include the Black-Scholes model and four stochastic volatility models ranging from the single-factor stochastic volatility model first proposed by Heston (1993) to a multi-factor stochastic volatility model with jumps in the spot price process. The stochastic volatility ...

Barrier Option Pricing by Branching Processes

Svetlozar T. Rachev Chair-Professor, Chair of Statistics, Econometrics and Mathematical Finance, School of Economics and Business Engineering, University of Karlsruhe and KIT, Kollegium am Schloss, Bau II, 20.12, R210, Postfach 6980, D-76128, Karlsruhe, Germany and Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Chief-Scientist, FinAnalytica Inc. E...

Sensitivity Analysis for Monte Carlo Simulation of Option Pricing

Monte Carlo simulation is one alternative for analyzing options markets when the assumptions of simpler analytical models are violated. We introduce techniques for the sensitivity analysis of option pricing which can be efficiently carried out in the simulation. In particular, using these techniques, a single run of the simulation would often provide not only an estimate of the option value but...

FFT Based Option Pricing

Numerical algorithm for discrete barrier option pricing in a Black-Scholes model with stationary process

In this article, we propose a numerical algorithm for computing price of discrete single and double barrier option under the emph{Black-Scholes} model. In virtue of some general transformations, the partial differential equations of option pricing in different monitoring dates are converted into simple diffusion equations. The present method is fast compared to alterna...