A mixed-up smile

Local volatility models have lost ground to stochastic volatility models, partly because theiradvocates cannot agree on parametrisations. Perhaps this paper will reverse the trend.Here, Damiano Brigo and Fabio Mercurio use lognormal mixtures to construct a localvolatility model that is analytically tractable and can be flexibly calibrated to market data

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