Technical paper/Volatility smile
Cutting Edge 2013: fixing SABR
Fixing SABR
Hybrid smiles made fast
Hybrid smiles made fast
Smile in the low moments
Smile in the low moments
Rational shapes of local volatility
Rational shapes of local volatility
Cutting Edge introduction: SABR rattling
SABR rattling
Expanded forward volatility
Expanded forward volatility
The basis goes stochastic
The basis goes stochastic
Cutting edge introduction: perturbing the smile
Perturbing the smile
Stochastic volatility’s orderly smiles
Stochastic volatility’s orderly smiles
Market-consistent equity risk premiums
Market-consistent equity risk premiums
Filling the gaps
Filling the gaps
Smiling jumps
Smiling jumps
Expanded smiles
Implementing models with stochastic as well as deterministic local volatility can be challenging. Here, Jesper Andreasen and Brian Huge describe an expansion approach for such models that avoids the high-dimensional partial differential equations usually…
Putting the smile back on the face of derivatives
Cross-asset quadratic Gaussian models have been limited in the scale of their implementation by the difficulty in ensuring the correct drift conditions to omit arbitrage. Here, Paul McCloud shows how to exploit the symmetries of the functional form to…
Calibration of local stochastic volatility models to market smiles
Pierre Henry-Labordère introduces a new technique for calibrating local volatility extensions of arbitrary multi-factor stochastic volatility models to market smiles. Although approximate, this technique is both fast and accurate. The procedure is…
Smile dynamics III
In two articles published in 2004 and 2005 in Risk, Lorenzo Bergomi assessed the structural limitations of existing models for equity derivatives and introduced a new model based on the direct modelling of the joint dynamics of the spot and the implied…
Pricing exotics under the smile
Masterclass – with JP Morgan
The vol smile problem
The author examines a wide range of volatility smile models in the context of the liquidity of the forex options markets
Static barriers
Exotic options
Volatility swaps made simple
Volatility
Swaptions with a smile
Masterclass – with JP Morgan