
handle: 11541.2/119874
Papers focusing on analytically pricing discretely-sampled volatility swaps are rare in literature, mainly due to the inherent difficulty associated with the nonlinearity in the pay-off function. In this paper, we present a closed-form exact solution for the pricing of discretely-sampled volatility swaps, under the framework of Heston (1993) stochastic volatility model, based on the definition of the so-called average of realized volatility. By working out such a closed-form exact solution for discretely-sampled volatility swaps, this work represents a substantial progress in the field of pricing volatility swaps, as it has: (1) significantly reduced the computational time in obtaining numerical values for the discretely-sampled volatility swaps; (2) improved the computational accuracy of discretely-sampled volatility swaps, comparing with the continuous sampling approximation, especially when the time interval between sampling points is large; (3) enabled all the hedging ratios of a volatility swap to be analytically derived.
characteristic function, analytically, volatility, pricing, stochastic, volatility swaps, stochastic volatility, swaps, under, Heston model
characteristic function, analytically, volatility, pricing, stochastic, volatility swaps, stochastic volatility, swaps, under, Heston model
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