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This paper examines the pricing of barrier options when the price of the underlying asset is modeled by a branching process in a random environment (BPRE). We derive an analytical formula for the price of an up-and-out call option, one form of a barrier option. Calibration of the model...
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We compare in a backtesting study the performance of univariate models for Value-at-Risk (VaR) and expected shortfall based on stable laws and on extreme value theory (EVT). Analyzing these different approaches, we test whether the sum–stability assumption or the max–stability assumption,...
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