In this note, we show that simple models that explicitly accounts for the market participants’ fear that the stock prices will plunge, is capable of explaining the implied volat...
We propose a model which can be jointly calibrated to the corporate bond term structure and equity option volatility surface of the same company. Our purpose is to obtain explicit...
The aim of this paper is to investigate the properties of stochastic volatility models, and to discuss to what extent, and with regard to which models, properties of the classical...
We consider the problem of pricing American options when the volatility of the underlying asset price is stochastic. No specific stochastic volatility model is assumed for the st...
This paper derives Monte Carlo simulation estimators to compute option price derivatives, i.e., the `Greeks,' under Heston's stochastic volatility model and some variant...