Das Arbeitspapier behandelt die verschiedenen Möglichkeiten zur Optionspreisbestimmung. Es beginnt mit einer Abhandlung der theoretischen Grundlagen und stellt danach unterschiedliche Modelle dar, bspw. Black-Scholes-Modell; Cox-Ross-Rubinstein-Modell usw.

We will present a model to compute a lower bound for the price of this option. The model, represented by a non-linear parabolic PDE, is implemented with finite elements in order to demonstrate the results with several derivatives from the European market.

Starting with observable annually compounded forward rates we derive a term structure model of interest rates. The model relies upon the assumption that a specific set of annually compounded forward rates is log-normally distributed. We derive solutions for interest rate caps and floors as well...

One of the central goals in finance is to find better models for pricing and hedging financial derivatives such as call and put options. We present a semi-nonparametric approach to risk-neutral density extraction from option prices which is based on an extension of the concept of mixture density...

Motivated by previous findings that discretization of financial time series can effectively filter the data and reduce the noise, this experimental study compares the trading performance of predictive models based on different modelling paradigms in a realistic setting. Different methods ranging...

We consider an option c which is contingent on an underlying (tilde S) that is not a traded asset. This situation typically arises in the context of real options. We investigate the situation when there is a "surrogate" traded asset S whose price process is highly correlated with that of (tilde...

This paper derives optimal perfect hedging portfolios in the presence of transaction costs within the binomial model of stock returns, for a market maker that establishes bid and ask prices for American call options on stocks paying dividends prior to expiration.(...)

This paper shows a simple approach to the pricing of options on spread and some arguments in favor of modelling the spread using its two components instead of the spread itself.

This paper considers the option pricing when dynamic portfolios are discretely rebalanced.

The aim of this paper is to accommodating the existing affine jump- diffusion and quadratic models under the same roof, namely the linear-quadratic jump-diffusion (LQJD) class.