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Lean Trees--A General Approach for Improving Performance of Lattice Models for Option Pricing

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  • Rainer Baule
  • Marco Wilkens

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The well-known binomial and trinomial tree models for option pricing are examined from the point of view of numerical efficiency. Common lattices use a large part of time resources for calculations which are almost irrelevant for the solution. To avoid this waste of resources, the tree is reduced to a "lean" form which yields the same order of convergence, but with a reduction of numerical effort. In numerical tests it is shown that the proposed method leads to a significant improvement in real calculation time without loss of accuracy for a broad class of derivatives.

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  • Rainer Baule & Marco Wilkens, 2004. "Lean Trees--A General Approach for Improving Performance of Lattice Models for Option Pricing," Review of Derivatives Research, Springer, vol. 7(1), pages 53-72.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:revdev:v:7:y:2004:i:1:p:53-72
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    1. Pelsser, Antoon & Salahnejhad Ghalehjooghi, Ahmad, 2016. "Time-consistent actuarial valuations," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 97-112.
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    3. Andrea Gamba & Lenos Trigeorgis, 2007. "An Improved Binomial Lattice Method for Multi-Dimensional Options," Applied Mathematical Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(5), pages 453-475.
    4. Leippold, Markus & Schärer, Steven, 2017. "Discrete-time option pricing with stochastic liquidity," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 1-16.
    5. Youngchul Han & Geonwoo Kim, 2016. "Efficient Lattice Method for Valuing of Options with Barrier in a Regime Switching Model," Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, Hindawi, vol. 2016, pages 1-14, October.
    6. J. X. Jiang & R. H. Liu & D. Nguyen, 2016. "A Recombining Tree Method For Option Pricing With State-Dependent Switching Rates," International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance (IJTAF), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 19(02), pages 1-26, March.
    7. Markus Leippold & Zvi Wiener, 2005. "Efficient Calibration of Trinomial Trees for One-Factor Short Rate Models," Review of Derivatives Research, Springer, vol. 7(3), pages 213-239, October.
    8. Tianyang Wang & James Dyer & Warren Hahn, 2015. "A copula-based approach for generating lattices," Review of Derivatives Research, Springer, vol. 18(3), pages 263-289, October.

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