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by prospero
September 14th, 2022, 2:05 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Implied volatility skew decay over expiry
Replies: 5
Views: 5540

Re: Implied volatility skew decay over expiry

Also
(4) (PDF) The Implied Volatility Surface Does Not Move by Parallel Shifts (researchgate.net)
(you can prove the skew flattening result from there holds even if instead of S_t being a martingale, you assume it is just a collection of positive RVs with the same mean fitting the skew) 
by prospero
April 25th, 2012, 11:45 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Forward Kolmogorov Boundary conditions
Replies: 4
Views: 14385

Forward Kolmogorov Boundary conditions

LEt me make a note that Fichera theory hasn't been sufficiently publicized (Daniel's books being exceptiona), especially not in connection with SDEs. A rare instance where this connection was made is the Friedman's "Stochastic Differential Equations and Applications I" pg. 206.
by prospero
February 9th, 2009, 9:13 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: change of measure in heston's model
Replies: 4
Views: 46480

change of measure in heston's model

<r>To get Novikov for the CIR process one of the exercises in Revuz& Yor is useful, see <URL url="http://www.itwm.fraunhofer.de/zentral/download/berichte/bericht53.pdf"><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.itwm.fraunhofer.de/zentral/d ... icht53.pdf">http://www.itwm.fraunhofer.de/zentral/download/bericht...
by prospero
November 27th, 2008, 4:28 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: conditional expectation and characteristic function?
Replies: 9
Views: 48435

conditional expectation and characteristic function?

For Gaussian, Lemma 5.6.1 in http://www.control.uwaterloo.ca/heunis/notes.902.pdf, can extend from there.
by prospero
July 23rd, 2008, 9:58 am
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Kwok second edition
Replies: 23
Views: 56148

Kwok second edition

I found typos in compund options and in options on several assets - those formulae have been removed from the second edition.Those are almost two different books, so keeping them both makes sense.
by prospero
July 20th, 2008, 7:05 am
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: spread option with stochastic volatility
Replies: 1
Views: 51019

spread option with stochastic volatility

Google up Piterbarg's work on stoch vol and Markovian projections.
by prospero
July 20th, 2008, 7:03 am
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Kwok second edition
Replies: 23
Views: 56148

Kwok second edition

<t>got a copy of Y.K. Kwok "Mathematical Models of financial Derivatives" 2nd ed. Over the years I've found his book (first ed '98) quite useful at times, as it contains unusually large collection of formulae with an acceptable levels of typos. The 2nd edition is significanly larger, but for some re...
by prospero
June 8th, 2008, 11:18 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: CIR model and the Feller condition
Replies: 3
Views: 58374

CIR model and the Feller condition

Also given in Proposition 6.2.4 of Lamberton and Lapeyre's book
by prospero
May 10th, 2007, 7:32 am
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: brownian bridge
Replies: 5
Views: 77625

brownian bridge

take a look atLyons, T. J., Zheng, W., A. On conditional diffusion processes. Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A 115 (1990), no. 3-4, 243-255what you need is also summarized inQian_Zheng
by prospero
April 18th, 2007, 7:16 am
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: $ change
Replies: 14
Views: 78576

$ change

ballot problem, vN got it.
by prospero
March 29th, 2007, 11:04 am
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: ODE question
Replies: 20
Views: 84019

ODE question

dy/(x-y)=dx/(x+y) => d(xy)/(x^2+y^2)=d(.5(x^2-y^2))/(x^2+y^2),and go from there.
by prospero
March 21st, 2007, 1:08 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Integrability
Replies: 4
Views: 76388

Integrability

I've switched X and Z below:By Tonelliso for some ywhich implies integrability of X. Then integrability of Y follows since the sum is integrable.
by prospero
February 4th, 2007, 5:51 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Kruse "On the pricing of Forward starting Options..."
Replies: 10
Views: 81990

Kruse "On the pricing of Forward starting Options..."

Sorry, what I meant was article "Forward-start options in stochastic volatility models" in Sept. 03 Wilmott mag.
by prospero
February 2nd, 2007, 2:19 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Kruse "On the pricing of Forward starting Options..."
Replies: 10
Views: 81990

Kruse "On the pricing of Forward starting Options..."

You're right. 1D integral of cliquet was done in Sept 03 issue of Wilmott, so this paper doesn't make much sense.
by prospero
February 15th, 2006, 12:52 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: SABR model rho=0, no local vol
Replies: 4
Views: 119996

SABR model rho=0, no local vol

for rho=0 this should work as well. First use Tonelli to get integrability of S_{t}.Then to check E[S_t|F_s]=S_s, first condition S_t on sigma-alg. generated by W_stock up to s, and W_vol up to t,and use independence.