Applied Quantitative Finance for Equity Derivatives
fifth edition
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In its fifth edition, this book presents the most significant equity derivatives models used these days. It is not a book around esoteric or cutting-edge models, but rather a book on relatively simple and standard models, viewed from the angle of a practitioner.
A few key subjects explained in this book are:
- cash dividends for European, American, or exotic options
- advanced finite difference techniques: grid stretching, payoff smoothing, the solution of the linear complementary problem under negative rates, and explicit super-time-stepping schemes.
- issues of the Dupire local volatility model and possible fixes
- Non-parametric regression for American options in Monte-Carlo, randomized simulations
- the particle method for stochastic-local-volatility model with quasi-random numbers
- Numerical methods for the variance and volatility swaps, including some popular variations around those.
quadratures for options under stochastic volatility models
- VIX options and dividend derivatives
- backward/forward representation of exotics.
- arbitrage-free representations for implied volatilities.
The January 2025 fifth edition all in color brings the following minor updates:
- vanilla option pricing under the spot piecewise-lognormal model has been reworked and now include newer approximations.
- Asian option pricing also includes newer approximations.
- Time-dependent piecewise-constant stochastic volatility vanilla pricing, calibration and simulation.
- a small section on forward variance model calibration.
Details
- Publication Date
- Jun 27, 2025
- Language
- English
- Category
- Science & Medicine
- Copyright
- Creative Commons ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)
- Contributors
- By (author): Jherek Healy
Specifications
- Format