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A Note on the Discontinuity Problem in Heston's Stochastic Volatility Model

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  • Jia-Hau Guo
  • Mao-Wei Hung

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Although quasi-analytic formulas can be derived for European-style financial claims in Heston's stochastic volatility model, the inverse Fourier integration involved makes the calculation somewhat complicated. This challenge has puzzled practitioners for many years because most implementations of Heston's formula are not robust, even for customarily-used Heston parameters, as time to maturity is increased. In this article, a simplified approach is proposed to solve the numerical instability problem inherent to the fundamental solution of the Heston model. Specifically, the solution does not require any additional function or a particular mechanism for most software packages or programming library routines to correctly evaluate Heston's analytics.

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  • Jia-Hau Guo & Mao-Wei Hung, 2007. "A Note on the Discontinuity Problem in Heston's Stochastic Volatility Model," Applied Mathematical Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(4), pages 339-345.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apmtfi:v:14:y:2007:i:4:p:339-345
    DOI: 10.1080/13504860601170534
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    1. Feng, Shih-Ping & Hung, Mao-Wei & Wang, Yaw-Huei, 2014. "Option pricing with stochastic liquidity risk: Theory and evidence," Journal of Financial Markets, Elsevier, vol. 18(C), pages 77-95.
    2. Junkee Jeon & Jeonggyu Huh & Kyunghyun Park, 2020. "An Analytic Approximation for Valuation of the American Option Under the Heston Model in Two Regimes," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 56(2), pages 499-528, August.
    3. Roger Lord, 2010. "Comment on: A Note on the Discontinuity Problem in Heston's Stochastic Volatility Model," Applied Mathematical Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(4), pages 373-376.

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