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by DinDec
June 13th, 2012, 4:06 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Vega PDE for american vallina option
Replies: 16
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Vega PDE for american vallina option

<t>Prof. Duffy,This vega pde comes from the Lagnado and Osher paper, where they used this to compute the variational derivative.For the european call boundary conditions, I just took the vega I computed using direct differences. And the result I mentioned where I had nul everywhere was due to a bug ...
by DinDec
June 12th, 2012, 10:36 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Vega PDE for american vallina option
Replies: 16
Views: 38637

Vega PDE for american vallina option

<t>Hi,Referring to the equation by accelas (vega pde with source/sink term): ,for standard european options, what would be the upper and lower boundaries? ( Vega(Smin,t) and Vega(Smax,t) )I used BS vega at the boundaries but it gave me almost 0 vegas for the whole grid. What would you use as boundar...
by DinDec
February 2nd, 2012, 2:58 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Local Vol. as a Function of Implied Vol. / Gatheral's Book
Replies: 8
Views: 42942

Local Vol. as a Function of Implied Vol. / Gatheral's Book

hi LocalVolatility,did you manage to get your hands on the this paper:Andersen, Brotherton-Ratcliffe; The equity option volatility smile: An implicit finite-difference approachcould you please post? thanks
by DinDec
February 1st, 2012, 3:55 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Looking for a paper by Lagnado and Osher (1997)
Replies: 5
Views: 191057

Looking for a paper by Lagnado and Osher (1997)

hi,i am also looking for the Lagnado-Osher paper, could someone please post.thanks