scholarly journals A Stochastic Approach to the Valuation of Barrier Options in Heston’s Stochastic Volatility Model

Author(s):  
Susanne Griebsch ◽  
Kay F. Pilz





2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sema Coskun ◽  
Ralf Korn

Abstract Both barrier options and the Heston stochastic volatility model are omnipresent in real-life applications of financial mathematics. In this paper, we apply the Heath–Platen (HP) estimator (as first introduced by Heath and Platen in [12]) to price barrier options in the Heston model setting as an alternative to conventional Monte Carlo methods and PDE based methods. We demonstrate the superior performance of the HP estimator via numerical examples and explain this performance by a detailed look at the underlying theoretical concept of the HP estimator.



2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Min-Ku Lee ◽  
Kyu-Hwan Jang

We study the pricing of a Parisian option under a stochastic volatility model. Based on the manipulation problem that barrier options might create near barriers, the Parisian option has been designed as an extended barrier option. A stochastic volatility correction to the Black-Scholes price of the Parisian option is obtained in a partial differential equation form and the solution is characterized numerically.



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