Derivatives on the Chicago Board Options Exchange volatility index (VIX) have gained significant popularity over the last decade. The pricing of VIX derivatives involves evaluating the square root of the expected realised variance which cannot be computed by direct Monte Carlo methods. Least...

This paper examines the efficiency of standard variance reduction techniques across option characteristics when pricing American-style call and put options with the Least-Squares Monte Carlo algorithm of Longstaff & Schwartz (2001). Our numerical experiments evaluate the efficiency of antithetic...

Least squares Monte Carlo (LSM) is an approximate dynamic programming (ADP) technique commonly used for the valuation of high dimensional financial and real options, but has broader applicability. It is known that the regress-later version of this method is an approximate linear programming...