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WSC
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Constrained Monte Carlo and the method of control variates
A constrained Monte Carlo problem arises when one computes an expectation in the presence of a priori computable constraints on the expectations of quantities that are correlated ...
Roberto Szechtman, Peter W. Glynn
FPL
2010
Springer
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13 years 2 months ago
Reconfigurable Control Variate Monte-Carlo Designs for Pricing Exotic Options
Exotic options are financial derivatives which have complex features including path-dependency. These complex features make them difficult to price, as only computationally intensi...
Anson H. T. Tse, David B. Thomas, Kuen Hung Tsoi, ...
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Approximations and control variates for pricing portfolio credit derivatives
Portfolio credit derivatives that depend on default correlation are increasingly widespread in the credit market. Valuing such products often entails Monte Carlo simulation. Howev...
Zhiyong Chen, Paul Glasserman
MOR
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Adaptive Control Variates for Finite-Horizon Simulation
Adaptive Monte Carlo methods are simulation efficiency improvement techniques designed to adaptively tune simulation estimators. Most of the work on adaptive Monte Carlo methods h...
Sujin Kim, Shane G. Henderson
WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Reducing the variance of likelihood ratio greeks in Monte Carlo
We investigate the use of Antithetic Variables, Control Variates and Importance Sampling to reduce the statistical errors of option sensitivities calculated with the Likelihood Ra...
Luca Capriotti