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Fast deterministic pricing of options on Lévy driven assets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2004

Ana-Maria Matache ,
Tobias von Petersdorff  and
Christoph Schwab
Ana-Maria Matache
Affiliation:
RiskLab and Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH-Zentrum, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
Tobias von Petersdorff
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
Christoph Schwab
Affiliation:
Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH-Zentrum, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland. schwab@sam.math.ethz.ch.
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Abstract

Arbitrage-free prices u of European contracts on risky assets whose log-returns are modelled by Lévy processes satisfy a parabolic partial integro-differential equation (PIDE) $\partial_t u + {\mathcal{A}}[u] = 0$. This PIDE is localized to bounded domains and the error due to this localization is estimated. The localized PIDE is discretized by the θ-scheme in time and a wavelet Galerkin method with N degrees of freedom in log-price space. The dense matrix for ${\mathcal{A}}$ can be replaced by a sparse matrix in the wavelet basis, and the linear systems in each implicit time step are solved approximatively with GMRES in linear complexity. The total work of the algorithm for M time steps is bounded by O(MN(log(N))2) operations and O(Nlog(N)) memory. The deterministic algorithm gives optimal convergence rates (up to logarithmic terms) for the computed solution in the same complexity as finite difference approximations of the standard Black–Scholes equation. Computational examples for various Lévy price processes are presented.

Keywords

Parabolic partial integro-differential equationsLévy processesMarkov processesGalerkin finite element methodwaveletmatrix compressionGMRES.
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Research Article
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ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , January 2004 , pp. 37 - 71
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2004

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