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starry
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CEV process

March 20th, 2005, 12:39 pm

I have been doing a project about modeling with the CEV process (dS = a S^b dW). My question is whether this is really used in the markets for anything, or whether it is just a toy model / historical curiosity / special case of SABR.Thanks,
 
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CEV process

March 20th, 2005, 9:27 pm

I like the constant elasticity volatility idea, and often use it for investigation. However, I haven't seen it used in practice, that is for pricing an instrument or setting a hedge ratio, for at least ten years. That doesn't mean people don't use it somewhere, but it's not common.
 
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CEV process

March 30th, 2005, 6:06 pm

Thanks for the reply Aaron. Any favorite papers or suggested avenues to pursue? I have done a fairly thorough search already, but more ideas welcome!
 
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CEV process

March 30th, 2005, 6:36 pm

If you have read the original Cox and Ross paper (Journal of Financial Economics, March 1976) then I don't know of any major improvement.
 
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CEV process

March 31st, 2005, 9:34 pm

I like this paper-V
 
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CEV process

April 6th, 2005, 9:41 pm

The other nice one is "Computing the Constant Elasticity of Variance Option Pricing Formula" by Mark Schroder