We consider the problem of hedging a European interest rate contingent claim with a portfolio of zero-coupon bonds and show that an HJM type Markovian model driven by an infinite number of sources of randomness does not have some of the shortcomings found in the classical finite-factor models....

In this paper, we develop a new mathematical technique which allows us to express the joint distribution of a Markov process and its running maximum (or minimum) through the marginal distribution of the process itself. This technique is an extension of the classical reflection principle for...

In this paper, we implement and test two types of market-based models for European-type options, based on the tangent Levy models proposed recently by R. Carmona and S. Nadtochiy. As a result, we obtain a method for generating Monte Carlo samples of future paths of implied volatility surfaces....

In some options markets (e.g. commodities), options are listed with only a single maturity for each underlying. In others, (e.g. equities, currencies), options are listed with multiple maturities. In this paper, we provide an algorithm for calibrating a pure jump Markov martingale model to match...

We consider the problem faced by an investor who must liquidate a given basket of assets over a finite time horizon. The investor's goal is to maximize the expected utility of the sales revenues over a class of adaptive strategies. We assume that the investor's utility has constant absolute risk...

In this note we prove Hölder-type inequalities for products of certain functionals of correlated Brownian motions. These estimates are applied to the study of optimal portfolio choice in incomplete markets when the investor's utility is of the form U(X,Y)=g(X)h(Y), where X is the investor's...

This note analyzes the mean-reverting behavior of time-homogeneous Heath-Jarrow-Morton (HJM) forward rate models in the weighted Sobolev spaces {H<Subscript> w </Subscript>}<Subscript> w </Subscript>. An explicit sufficient condition is given under which invariant measures exist for the HJM dynamics. In particular, every HJM model with...</subscript></subscript>