Journal of Computational Finance

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Local volatility models in commodity markets and online calibration

Vinicius Albani, Uri M. Ascher and Jorge P Zubelli

  • A local volatility model for commodities is introduced allowing the use of existing calibration techniques from equity markets to be applied.
  • The online calibration technique is adapted to consider scarce data as well as uncertainty in underlying asset price.
  • Extensive tests and comparisons using the implied volatility are provided.
     

We introduce a local volatility model for the valuation of options on commodity futures by using European vanilla option prices. The corresponding calibration problem is addressed within an online framework, allowing the use of multiple price surfaces. Since uncertainty in the observation of the underlying future prices translates to uncertainty in data locations, we propose a model-based adjustment of such prices that improves reconstructions and smile adherence. In order to tackle the ill-posedness of the calibration problem we incorporate a priori information through a judiciously designed Tikhonov-type regularization. Extensive empirical tests with market and synthetic data are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the methodology and algorithms.

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