Modular Pricing of Options

Bol

This text describes the applications of the Fourier transform to the modeling of volatility smile. It comprehensively treats option valuation in a unified framework, covering stochastic volatilities and interest rates, Poisson and Levy jumps, and more. The sound modeling of the smile effect is an important issue in quantitative finance as, for more than a decade, the Fourier transform has established itself as the most efficient tool for deriving closed-form option pricing formulas in various model classes. This book describes the applications of the Fourier transform to the modeling of volatility smile, followed by a comprehensive treatment of option valuation in a unified framework, covering stochastic volatilities and interest rates, Poisson and Levy jumps, including various asset classes such as equity, FX and interest rates, as well as various numberical examples and prototype programming codes. Readers will benefit from this book not only by gaining an overview of the advanced theory and the vast range of literature on these topics, but also by receiving first-hand feedback on the practical applications and implementations of the theory. The book is aimed at financial engineers, risk managers, graduate students and researchers.

Bol Partner

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of the application of Fourier analyses to pricing standard and exotic options, and discusses three different factors: stochastic volatility, stochastic interest rate and random jump. The modeling of volatility and interest rate falls into four different alternatives: constant, mean-reverting Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, mean-reverting square root process and mean-reverting double square root process, while random jumps are specified as pure jumps, lognormal jumps and Pareto jumps. This framework called Modular Pricing of Options includes most of the existing options pricing formulas as special cases.