Calibrating Option Pricing Models with Heuristics
Calibrating option pricing models to market prices often leads to optimisation problems to which standard methods (like such based on gradients) cannot be applied. We investigate two models: Heston’s stochastic volatility model, and Bates’s model which also includes jumps. We discuss how to price options under these models, and how to calibrate the parameters of the models with heuristic techniques.
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| Length: | 39 pages |
| Date of creation: | 08 Mar 2010 |
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| Handle: | RePEc:com:wpaper:030 |
| Contact details of provider: | Web page: http://www.comisef.eu
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