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Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Mao Chen ◽  
Guanqi Liu ◽  
Yuwen Wang

At present, the study concerning pricing variance swaps under CIR the (Cox–Ingersoll–Ross)–Heston hybrid model has achieved many results ; however, due to the instantaneous interest rate and instantaneous volatility in the model following the Feller square root process, only a semi-closed solution can be obtained by solving PDEs. This paper presents a simplified approach to price log-return variance swaps under the CIR–Heston hybrid model. Compared with Cao’s work, an important feature of our approach is that there is no need to solve complex PDEs; a closed-form solution is obtained by applying the martingale theory and Ito^’s lemma. The closed-form solution is significant because it can achieve accurate pricing and no longer takes time to adjust parameters by numerical method. Another significant feature of this paper is that the impact of sampling frequency on pricing formula is analyzed; then the closed-form solution can be extended to an approximate formula. The price curves of the closed-form solution and the approximate solution are presented by numerical simulation. When the sampling frequency is large enough, the two curves almost coincide, which means that our approximate formula is simple and reliable.







2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-115
Author(s):  
Youssef EL-KHATİB ◽  
Mariam ALSHAMSİ ◽  
Jun FAN


2021 ◽  
Vol 386 ◽  
pp. 113220
Author(s):  
Jiling Cao ◽  
Jeong-Hoon Kim ◽  
Wenjun Zhang


Author(s):  
Liyuan Jiang ◽  
Shuang Zhou ◽  
Keren Li ◽  
Fangfang Wang ◽  
Jie Yang

Estimates of risk-neutral densities of future asset returns have been commonly used for pricing new financial derivatives, detecting profitable opportunities, and measuring central bank policy impacts. We develop a new nonparametric approach for estimating the risk-neutral density of asset prices and reformulate its estimation into a double-constrained optimization problem. We evaluate our approach using the S&P 500 market option prices from 1996 to 2015. A comprehensive cross-validation study shows that our approach outperforms the existing nonparametric quartic B-spline and cubic spline methods, as well as the parametric method based on the normal inverse Gaussian distribution. As an application, we use the proposed density estimator to price long-term variance swaps, and the model-implied prices match reasonably well with those of the variance future downloaded from the Chicago Board Options Exchange website.



Author(s):  
Huojun Wu ◽  
Zhaoli Jia ◽  
Shuquan Yang ◽  
Ce Liu

In this paper, we discuss the problem of pricing discretely sampled variance swaps under a hybrid stochastic model. Our modeling framework is a combination with a double Heston stochastic volatility model and a Cox–Ingersoll–Ross stochastic interest rate process. Due to the application of the T-forward measure with the stochastic interest process, we can only obtain an efficient semi-closed form of pricing formula for variance swaps instead of a closed-form solution based on the derivation of characteristic functions. The practicality of this hybrid model is demonstrated by numerical simulations.



2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 672-689
Author(s):  
Peter Carr ◽  
Roger Lee ◽  
Matthew Lorig


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