Technical paper/Barrier options
Return to the barrier: option pricing and calibration in foreign exchange markets
The authors investigate return barrier options and how failing to capture the market’s implied volatility surface can lead to mispricing of these options.
Calibration of local-stochastic and path-dependent volatility models to vanilla and no-touch options
In this paper, the authors consider a large class of continuous semi-martingale models and propose a generic framework for their simultaneous calibration to vanilla and no-touch options.
Solving final value problems with deep learning
Pricing vanilla and exotic options with a deep learning approach for PDEs
Semi-closed-form prices of barrier options in the Hull-White model
New pricer for options with time-dependent barrier shown to be computationally efficient and stable
Pricing multiple barrier derivatives under stochastic volatility
This work generalizes existing one- and two-dimensional pricing formulas with an equal number of barriers to a setting of n dimensions and up to two barriers in the presence of stochastic volatility.
Finite difference schemes with exact recovery of vanilla option prices
A model unifies the classic local vol and binomial trees to accurately price options
Monte Carlo pathwise sensitivities for barrier options
In this work, we present a new Monte Carlo algorithm that is able to calculate the pathwise sensitivities for discontinuous payoff functions.
Efficient conservative second-order central-upwind schemes for option-pricing problems
In this paper, the authors propose improvements to the approach of Ramírez-Espinoza and Ehrhardt (2013) for option-pricing PDEs formulated in the conservative form.
Volatility risk structure for options depending on extrema
In this paper, the authors give a decomposition formula to calculate the vega index (sensitivity with respect to changes in volatility) for options with prices that depend on the extrema (maximum or minimum) and terminal value of the underlying stock…
Model-free valuation of barrier options
Austing and Li provide a continuous barrier options pricing formula that fits the volatility smile
Valuation of barrier options using sequential Monte Carlo
The authors present Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) method for pricing barrier options.
Quantized calibration in local volatility
Quantization is applied to price vanilla and barrier options
Smiling jumps
Smiling jumps
Credit barrier models
Claudio Albanese, Giuseppe Campolieti, Oliver Chen and Andrei Zavidonov construct an analytic credit barrier model driven by credit ratings, constrained to fit the term structure of credit spreads
Capturing the smile
Since the discovery that traditional calibration methods fail to capture the dynamics of the smile, new approaches based on mixtures or ensembles of models have been developed. Simon Johnson and Han Lee present a variant of this approach that can be used…
Exotic spectra
Eigenfunction expansions can also be applied to finance. The method is particularly suited to barrier and Asian options, with convergence properties that compare favourably with Monte Carlo.
Black-Scholes goes hypergeometric
Option pricing models
Behind the mirror
Barrier options
Image options and the road to barriers
Barrier options