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Automated Option Pricing: Numerical Methods

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  • PIERRE HENRY-LABORDÈRE

    (Société Générale, Global Markets, Quantitative Research, 17 cours Valmy, La Défense, France)

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In this paper, we investigate model-independent bounds for option prices given a set of market instruments. This super-replication problem can be written as a semi-infinite linear programing problem. As these super-replication prices can be large and the densities ℚ which achieve the upper bounds quite singular, we restrict ℚ to be close in the entropy sense to a prior probability measure at a next stage. This leads to our risk-neutral weighted Monte Carlo approach which is connected to a constrained convex problem. We explain how to solve efficiently these large-scale problems using a primal-dual interior-point algorithm within the cutting-plane method and a quasi-Newton algorithm. Various examples illustrate the efficiency of these algorithms and the large range of applicability.

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  • Pierre Henry-Labordère, 2013. "Automated Option Pricing: Numerical Methods," International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance (IJTAF), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 16(08), pages 1-27.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijtafx:v:16:y:2013:i:08:n:s0219024913500428
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219024913500428
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    1. Pierre Henry-Labordère, 2019. "(Martingale) Optimal Transport And Anomaly Detection With Neural Networks: A Primal-Dual Algorithm," Working Papers hal-02095222, HAL.
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