393 research outputs found
A framework for adaptive Monte-Carlo procedures
Adaptive Monte Carlo methods are recent variance reduction techniques. In
this work, we propose a mathematical setting which greatly relaxes the
assumptions needed by for the adaptive importance sampling techniques presented
by Vazquez-Abad and Dufresne, Fu and Su, and Arouna. We establish the
convergence and asymptotic normality of the adaptive Monte Carlo estimator
under local assumptions which are easily verifiable in practice. We present one
way of approximating the optimal importance sampling parameter using a randomly
truncated stochastic algorithm. Finally, we apply this technique to some
examples of valuation of financial derivatives
Pricing High-Dimensional American Options Using Local Consistency Conditions
We investigate a new method for pricing high-dimensional American options. The method is of finite difference type but is also related to Monte Carlo techniques in that it involves a representative sampling of the underlying variables.An approximating Markov chain is built using this sampling and linear programming is used to satisfy local consistency conditions at each point related to the infinitesimal generator or transition density.The algorithm for constructing the matrix can be parallelised easily; moreover once it has been obtained it can be reused to generate quick solutions for a large class of related problems.We provide pricing results for geometric average options in up to ten dimensions, and compare these with accurate benchmarks.option pricing;inequality;markov chains
An Irregular Grid Approach for Pricing High-Dimensional American Options
We propose and test a new method for pricing American options in a high-dimensional setting.The method is centred around the approximation of the associated complementarity problem on an irregular grid.We approximate the partial differential operator on this grid by appealing to the SDE representation of the underlying process and computing the root of the transition probability matrix of an approximating Markov chain.Experimental results in five dimensions are presented for four different payoff functions.option pricing;inequality;markov chains
Monte Carlo simulation algorithms for the pricing of American options
One looks at the pricing of American options using Monte Carlo simulations. The selected theories on the low-biased and high-biased algorithms are reviewed. Numerical results from the implementations of the chosen algorithms are presented and analysed. One also investigates the effects of applying antithetic variables to the high-biased algorithm, showing that the variance reducing technique provides great improvements to the existing algorithm
Large deviation asymptotics and control variates for simulating large functions
Consider the normalized partial sums of a real-valued function of a
Markov chain, The
chain takes values in a general state space ,
with transition kernel , and it is assumed that the Lyapunov drift condition
holds: where , , the set is small and dominates . Under these
assumptions, the following conclusions are obtained: 1. It is known that this
drift condition is equivalent to the existence of a unique invariant
distribution satisfying , and the law of large numbers
holds for any function dominated by :
2. The lower error
probability defined by , for , ,
satisfies a large deviation limit theorem when the function satisfies a
monotonicity condition. Under additional minor conditions an exact large
deviations expansion is obtained. 3. If is near-monotone, then
control-variates are constructed based on the Lyapunov function , providing
a pair of estimators that together satisfy nontrivial large asymptotics for the
lower and upper error probabilities. In an application to simulation of queues
it is shown that exact large deviation asymptotics are possible even when the
estimator does not satisfy a central limit theorem.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/105051605000000737 in the
Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute
of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Pricing path-dependent Bermudan options using Wiener chaos expansion: an embarrassingly parallel approach
In this work, we propose a new policy iteration algorithm for pricing
Bermudan options when the payoff process cannot be written as a function of a
lifted Markov process. Our approach is based on a modification of the
well-known Longstaff Schwartz algorithm, in which we basically replace the
standard least square regression by a Wiener chaos expansion. Not only does it
allow us to deal with a non Markovian setting, but it also breaks the
bottleneck induced by the least square regression as the coefficients of the
chaos expansion are given by scalar products on the L^2 space and can therefore
be approximated by independent Monte Carlo computations. This key feature
enables us to provide an embarrassingly parallel algorithm.Comment: The Journal of Computational Finance, Incisive Media, In pres
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