We study pricing under the local volatility. Our research is mainly intended for pedagogical purposes. In the first part of our work we study the local volatility modeling. We derive the local volatility formula in terms of the European call prices and in terms of the market implied volatilities. We propose and calibrate to the DAX option data a functional form for the implied volatility which ...

The success of the Black-Scholes (BS) formula is mainly due to the possibility of synthesizing option prices through a unique parameter, the implied volatility, which is so crucial for traders to be directly quoted in many financial markets. This is because the BS formula allows one to immediately convert a volatility into the price at which the related option can be exchanged. The BS model, ho...

Central banks and other forecasters are increasingly interested in various aspects of density forecasts. However, recent sharp changes in macroeconomic volatility – such as the Great Moderation and the more recent sharp rise in volatility associated with greater variation in energy prices and the deep global recession – pose significant challenges to density forecasting. Accordingly, this paper...

The aim of this paper is to present a stochastic model that accounts for the effects of a long-memory in volatility on option pricing. The starting point is the stochastic Black-Scholes equation involving volatility with long-range dependence. We consider the option price as a sum of classical Black-Scholes price and random deviation describing the risk from the random volatility. By using the ...

We study the effect of introducing stochastic volatility in the first passage structural approach to default risk. We analyze the impact of volatility time scales on the yield spread curve. In particular we show that the presence of a short time scale in the volatility raises the yield spreads at short maturities. We argue that combining first passage default modeling with multiscale stochastic...

Timer options are barrier style options in the volatility space. A typical timer option is similar to its European vanilla counterpart, except with uncertain expiration date. The finite-maturity timer option expires either when the accumulated realized variance of the underlying asset has reached a pre-specified level or on the mandated expiration date, whichever comes earlier. The challenge in...

Recently, there has been a growing interest in the methods addressing volatility in computational finance and econometrics. Peiris et al. [8] have introduced doubly stochastic volatility models with GARCH innovations. Random coefficient autoregressive sequences are special case of doubly stochastic time series. In this paper, we consider some doubly stochastic stationary time series with GARCH ...

Over the past few years, model complexity in quantitative finance has increased substantially in response to earlier approaches that did not capture critical features for risk management. However, given the preponderance of the classical Black–Scholes model, it is still not clear that this increased complexity is matched by additional accuracy in the ultimate result. In particular, the last dec...