Multifactor Generalization of "Discount-Bond Derivatives on a Recombining Binomial Tree"

J. Chalupa

Finance from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: The security dynamics described by the Black-Scholes equation with price-dependent variance can be approximated as a damped discrete-time hopping process on a recombining binomial tree. In a previous working paper, such a nonuniform tree was explicitly constructed in terms of the continuous-time variance. The present note outlines how the previous procedure could be extended to multifactor Black-Scholes with price- and time-dependent coefficients. The basic idea is to derive new coordinates which give a Black-Scholes equation with all the "sigmas" equal to unity. In the discrete-time tree coresponding to this equation, nodes are uniformly spaced and the hopping probabilities are not constant. When the new coordinates are mapped back onto prices, the ensuing tree is nonuniform. A derivative can be valued with the new coordinates or the original prices.

Keywords: option pricing; multinomial trees; multifactor models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 5 pages
Date: 1997-06-02
Note: Type of Document - LaTeX; prepared on IBM PC ; pages: 5 ; figures: None
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