We present a novel method for pricing European options based on the wavelet approximation (WA) method and the characteristic function. We focus on the discounted expected payoff pricing formula, and compute it by means of wavelets. We approximate the density function associated to the underlying...

In this work, we investigate the challenging problem of estimating credit risk measures of portfolios with exposure concentration under the multi-factor Gaussian and multi-factor t-copula models. It is well-known that Monte Carlo (MC) methods are highly demanding from the computational point of...

The SWIFT method for pricing European-style options on one underlying asset was recently published and presented as an accurate, robust and highly efficient technique. The purpose of this paper is to extend the method to higher dimensions by pricing exotic option contracts, called rainbow...

We present a pricing method based on Shannon wavelet expansions for early-exercise and discretely-monitored barrier options under exponential Lévy asset dynamics. Shannon wavelets are smooth, and thus approximate the densities that occur in finance well, resulting in exponential convergence....

In this paper, we present the data-driven COS method, ddCOS. It is a Fourier-based financial option valuation method which assumes the availability of asset data samples: a characteristic function of the underlying asset probability density function is not required. As such, the method...

We present four numerical methods to compute the Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall risk measure values of portfolios with financial options. The numerical methods are based on either wavelets or Fourier cosine approximations and belong to the class of Fourier inversion methods. We show that...

To measure the contribution of individual transactions inside the total risk of a credit portfolio is a major issue in financial institutions. Value at Risk Contributions and Expected Shortfall Contributions have become two popular ways of quantifying these risks. However, the usual Monte Carlo...

This paper proposes a new methodology to compute Value at Risk (VaR) for quantifying losses in credit portfolios. We approximate the cumulative distribution of the loss function by a finite combination of Haar wavelet basis functions and calculate the coefficients of the approximation by...

In this work, we propose an efficient and robust valuation of discretely monitored arithmetic Asian options based on Shannon wavelets. We employ the so-called SWIFT method, a Fourier inversion numerical technique with several important advantages with respect to the existing related methods....

In this work we derive an exact formula to calculate the Expected Shortfall (ES) value for the one-factor delta-gamma approach which, to the best of our knowledge, was still missing in the literature. We then use the one-factor delta-gamma as a control variate to estimate the ES of the...