Introduction | |
The need for better financial modeling of asset prices | |
The family of stable distribution and its properties | |
Option pricing with volatility clustering | |
Model dependencies | |
Monte Carlo | |
Organization of the book | |
Probability distributions | |
Basic concepts | |
Discrete probability distributions | |
Continuous probability distributions | |
Statistic moments and quantiles | |
Characteristic function | |
Joint probability distributions | |
Summary | |
Stable and tempered stable distributions | |
¿-Stable distribution | |
Tempered stable distributions | |
Infinitely divisible distributions | |
Exponential Moments | |
Summary | |
Appendix | |
Stochastic Processes in Continuous Time | |
Some preliminaries | |
Poisson Process | |
Pure jump process | |
Brownian motion | |
Time-Changed Brownian motion | |
L´evy process | |
Summary | |
Conditional Expectation and Change of Measure | |
Events, ¿-fields, and filtration | |
Conditional expectation | |
Change of measures | |
Summary | |
Exponential L´evy Models | |
Exponential L´evy Models | |
Fitting ¿-stable and tempered stable distributions | |
Illustration: Parameter estimation for tempered stable distributions | |
Summary | |
Appendix : Numerical approximation of probability density and cumulative distribution functions | |
Option Pricing in Exponential L´evy Models | |
Option contract | |
Boundary conditions for the price of an option | |
No-arbitrage pricing and equivalent martingale measure | |
Option pricing under the Black-Scholes model | |
European option pricing under exponential tempered stable | |
Models | |
The subordinated stock price model | |
Summary | |
Simulation | |
Random number generators | |
Simulation techniques for L´evy processes | |
Tempered stable processes | |
Tempered infinitely divisible processes | |
Time-changed Brownian motion | |
Monte Carlo methods | |
Appendix | |
Multi-tail t distribution | |
Introduction | |
Principal component analysis | |
Estimating parameters | |
Empirical results | |
Conclusion | |
Non-Gaussian portfolio allocation | |
Introduction | |
Multi-factor linear model | |
Modeling dependencies | |
Average value-at-risk | |
Optimal portfolios | |
The algorithm | |
An empirical test | |
Conclusions | |
Normal GARCH models | |
Introduction | |
GARCH dynamics with normal innovation | |
Market estimation | |
Risk-neutral estimation | |
Conclusions | |
Smoothly truncated stable GARCH models | |
Introduction | |
A Generalized NGARCH Option Pricing Model | |
Empirical Analysis | |
Conclusion | |
Infinitely divisible GARCH models | |
Stock price dynamic | |
Risk-neutral dynamic | |
Non-normal infinitely divisible GARCH | |
Simulate infinitely divisible GARCH | |
Appendix | |
Option Pricing with Monte Carlo | |
Introduction | |
Data set | |
Performance of Option Pricing Models | |
Conclusions | |
American Option Pricing with Monte Carlo Methods | |
American option pricing in discrete time | |
The Least Squares Monte Carlo method | |
LSM method in GARCH option pricing model | |
Empirical illustration | |
Summary | |
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