
In some options markets (e.g., commodities), options are listed with only a single maturity for each underlying. In others (e.g., equities, currencies), options are listed with multiple maturities. In this paper, we analyze a special class of pure jump Markov martingale models and provide an algorithm for calibrating such models to match the market prices of European options with multiple strikes and maturities. This algorithm matches option prices exactly and only requires solving several one‐dimensional root‐search problems and applying elementary functions. We show how to construct a time‐homogeneous process which meets a single smile, and a piecewise time‐homogeneous process which can meet multiple smiles.
implied smile, Science, Probability (math.PR), exact calibration, Martingales with continuous parameter, Business and Economics, FOS: Economics and business, local variance gamma, Mathematics - Analysis of PDEs, Derivative securities (option pricing, hedging, etc.), PDEs in connection with game theory, economics, social and behavioral sciences, FOS: Mathematics, Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR), Quantitative Finance - Pricing of Securities, Mathematics, Finance, Mathematics - Probability, Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
implied smile, Science, Probability (math.PR), exact calibration, Martingales with continuous parameter, Business and Economics, FOS: Economics and business, local variance gamma, Mathematics - Analysis of PDEs, Derivative securities (option pricing, hedging, etc.), PDEs in connection with game theory, economics, social and behavioral sciences, FOS: Mathematics, Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR), Quantitative Finance - Pricing of Securities, Mathematics, Finance, Mathematics - Probability, Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
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