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A First Option Calibration of the GARCH Diffusion Model by a PDE Method

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  • Yiannis A. Papadopoulos
  • Alan L. Lewis

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Time-series calibrations often suggest that the GARCH diffusion model could also be a suitable candidate for option (risk-neutral) calibration. But unlike the popular Heston model, it lacks a fast, semi-analytic solution for the pricing of vanilla options, perhaps the main reason why it is not used in this way. In this paper we show how an efficient finite difference-based PDE solver can effectively replace analytical solutions, enabling accurate option calibrations in less than a minute. The proposed pricing engine is shown to be robust under a wide range of model parameters and combines smoothly with black-box optimizers. We use this approach to produce a first PDE calibration of the GARCH diffusion model to SPX options and present some benchmark results for future reference.

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  • Yiannis A. Papadopoulos & Alan L. Lewis, 2018. "A First Option Calibration of the GARCH Diffusion Model by a PDE Method," Papers 1801.06141, arXiv.org.
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