TREE METHOD FOR OPTION PRICING UNDER STOCHASTIC VARIANCE

Dragan Šestović
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Dragan Šestović: Department of Physics, University of Zagreb, Bijenicka c. 32, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia

International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance (IJTAF), 2000, vol. 03, issue 03, 557-557

Abstract: We develop a recombining tree method for pricing of options by using a general two-factor stochastic-variance (SV) diffusion model for asset price dynamics. We show that it is possible to construct a riskless hedge by including additional short-term options in the hedging portfolio. This procedure gives us Partial Differential Equation (PDE) that can be solved by using standard numerical techniques giving us a unique option's price. We show that the option's price does not depend on the long run volatility forecast but only on the parameters of the model, which are related to the volatility of variance. We show one particular transformation of PDE to the Finite Difference Equation (FDE) that leads to the three-dimensional lattice method similar to the standard binomial-tree method. Our tree grows in the price-variance space and similarly to the binomial-tree, the coefficients of the FDE can be interpreted as risk neutral probabilities for jumping between the tree nodes. By investigating an error accumulation in the tree we found the stability criterion and the method that can be applied in order to achieve a stabile procedure. Our option pricing method can be used for European and American options and various payoffs. Since the procedure converges quickly and can be easily implemented, we believe that it could be useful for practitioners. The SV model we used here was shown earlier to be a diffusion limit of various GARCH-type models giving the possibility of using parameters obtained in the discrete-time GARCH framework as an input for our option pricing method.

Keywords: Derivatives; option pricing; stochastic volatility; tree method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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