Jumps Without Tears: A New Splitting Technology for Barrier Options

Jumps Without Tears: A New Splitting Technology for Barrier Options

Year:    2011

International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, Vol. 8 (2011), Iss. 4 : pp. 667–704

Abstract

The market pricing of OTC FX options displays both stochastic volatility and stochastic skewness in the risk-neutral distribution governing currency returns. To capture this unique phenomenon Carr and Wu developed a model (SSM) with three dynamical state variables. They then used Fourier methods to value simple European-style options. However, pricing exotic options requires numerical solution of 3D unsteady PIDE with mixed derivatives which is expensive. In this paper to achieve this goal we propose a new splitting technique. Being combined with another method of the authors, which uses pseudo-parabolic PDE instead of PIDE, this reduces the original 3D unsteady problem to a set of 1D unsteady PDEs, thus allowing a significant computational speedup. We demonstrate this technique for single and double barrier options priced using the SSM.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/2011-IJNAM-706

International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, Vol. 8 (2011), Iss. 4 : pp. 667–704

Published online:    2011-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    38

Keywords:    Barrier options pricing stochastic skew jump-diffusion finite-difference scheme numerical method the Green function general stable tempered process.