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Author: Pigato, Paolo × Publisher: Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik ×

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    Extreme at-the-money skew in a local volatility model
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2017) Pigato, Paolo
    We consider a local volatility model, with volatility taking two possible values, depending on the value of the underlying with respect to a fixed threshold. When the threshold is taken at-the-money, we establish exact pricing formulas and compute short-time asymptotics of the implied volatility surface. We derive an exact formula for the at-the-money implied volatility skew, which explodes as T-1/2, reproducing the empirical "steep short end of the smile". This behavior does not depend on the precise choice of the parameters, but simply follows from the "regime-switch" of the local volatility at-the-money.
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    A threshold model for local volatility: Evidence of leverage and mean reversion effects on historical data
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2017) Lejay, Antoine; Pigato, Paolo
    In financial markets, low prices are generally associated with high volatilities and vice-versa, this well known stylized fact usually being referred to as leverage effect. We propose a local volatility model, given by a stochastic differential equation with piecewise constant coefficients, which accounts of leverage and mean-reversion effects in the dynamics of the prices. This model exhibits a regime switch in the dynamics accordingly to a certain threshold. It can be seen as a continuous time version of the Self-Exciting Threshold Autoregressive (SETAR) model. We propose an estimation procedure for the volatility and drift coefficients as well as for the threshold level. Tests are performed on the daily prices of 21 assets. They show empirical evidence for leverage and mean-reversion effects, consistent with the results in the literature.
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    Reinforced optimal control
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2020) Bayer, Christian; Belomestny, Denis; Hager, Paul; Pigato, Paolo; Schoenmakers, John G. M.; Spokoiny, Vladimir
    Least squares Monte Carlo methods are a popular numerical approximation method for solving stochastic control problems. Based on dynamic programming, their key feature is the approximation of the conditional expectation of future rewards by linear least squares regression. Hence, the choice of basis functions is crucial for the accuracy of the method. Earlier work by some of us [Belomestny, Schoenmakers, Spokoiny, Zharkynbay, Commun. Math. Sci., 18(1):109?121, 2020] proposes to reinforce the basis functions in the case of optimal stopping problems by already computed value functions for later times, thereby considerably improving the accuracy with limited additional computational cost. We extend the reinforced regression method to a general class of stochastic control problems, while considerably improving the method?s efficiency, as demonstrated by substantial numerical examples as well as theoretical analysis.
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    Maximum likelihood drift estimation for a threshold diffusion
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2018) Lejay, Antoine; Pigato, Paolo
    We study the maximum likelihood estimator of the drift parameters of a stochastic differential equation, with both drift and diffusion coefficients constant on the positive and negative axis, yet discontinuous at zero. This threshold diffusion is called the drifted Oscillating Brownian motion. The asymptotic behaviors of the positive and negative occupation times rule the ones of the estimators. Differently from most known results in the literature, we do not restrict ourselves to the ergodic framework: indeed, depending on the signs of the drift, the process may be ergodic, transient or null recurrent. For each regime, we establish whether or not the estimators are consistent; if they are, we prove the convergence in long time of the properly rescaled difference of the estimators towards a normal or mixed normal distribution. These theoretical results are backed by numerical simulations.
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    Randomized optimal stopping algorithms and their convergence analysis
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2020) Bayer, Christian; Belomestny, Denis; Hager, Paul; Pigato, Paolo; Schoenmakers, John G. M.
    In this paper we study randomized optimal stopping problems and consider corresponding forward and backward Monte Carlo based optimization algorithms. In particular we prove the convergence of the proposed algorithms and derive the corresponding convergence rates.
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    Log-modulated rough stochastic volatility models
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2020) Bayer, Christian; Harang, Fabian; Pigato, Paolo
    We propose a new class of rough stochastic volatility models obtained by modulating the power-law kernel defining the fractional Brownian motion (fBm) by a logarithmic term, such that the kernel retains square integrability even in the limit case of vanishing Hurst index H. The so-obtained log-modulated fractional Brownian motion (log-fBm) is a continuous Gaussian process even for H = 0. As a consequence, the resulting super-rough stochastic volatility models can be analysed over the whole range of Hurst indices between 0 and 1/2, including H = 0, without the need of further normalization. We obtain the usual power law explosion of the skew as maturity T goes to 0, modulated by a logarithmic term, so no flattening of the skew occurs as H goes to 0.