On the Heston Model with Stochastic Volatility

Bénédicte Alziary () and Peter Takáč
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Bénédicte Alziary: TSE-R - Toulouse School of Economics - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - Comue de Toulouse - Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement
Peter Takáč: Unknown

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Abstract: We study the Heston model for pricing European options on stocks with stochastic volatility. This is a Black Scholes-type equation whose spatial domain for the logarithmic stock price x ∈ R and the variance v ∈ (0, ∞) is the half-plane H = R × (0, ∞). The volatility is then given by √v. The diffusion equation for the price of the European call option p = p(x, v, t) at time t ≤ T is parabolic and degenerates at the boundary ∂H = R × {0} as v → 0+. The goal is to hedge with this option against volatility fluctuations, i.e., the function v 7 → p(x, v, t) : (0, ∞) → R and its (local) inverse are of particular interest. We prove that ∂p ∂v (x, v, t) 6 = 0 holds almost everywhere in H × (−∞, T ) by establishing the analyticity of p. To this end, we are able to show that the Black-Scholes-type operator, which appears in the diffusion equation, generates a holomorphic C0-semigroup in a suitable weighted L2-space over H. We show that the C0-semigroup solution can be extended to a holomorphic function in a complex domain, by establishing some new a priori weighted L2-estimates over certain complex "shifts" of H for the unique holomorphic extension. These estimates depend only on the weighted L2-norm of the terminal data over H.

Keywords: Heston model; Analytic solution; Holomorphic extension; Terminal value problem; Degenerate parabolic equation; European call option; Black-Scholes equation; Stochastic volatility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-01-23
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