Efficient Pricing and Calibration of High-Dimensional Basket Options
Lech A. Grzelak, Juliusz Jablecki, Dariusz Gatarek

TL;DR
This paper introduces a novel method for efficiently pricing and calibrating high-dimensional basket options by combining an effective local volatility model with a jump-diffusion dependence structure, ensuring consistency with index options.
Contribution
It presents a new approach to calibrate multi-dimensional basket options that maintains consistency with individual stock and index option markets, addressing skewness issues.
Findings
Accurately fits basket options with up to 30 stocks
Ensures skew matching between basket and index options
Offers fast calibration and pricing methods
Abstract
This paper studies equity basket options -- i.e., multi-dimensional derivatives whose payoffs depend on the value of a weighted sum of the underlying stocks -- and develops a new and innovative approach to ensure consistency between options on individual stocks and on the index comprising them. Specifically, we show how to resolve a well-known problem that when individual constituent distributions of an equity index are inferred from the single-stock option markets and combined in a multi-dimensional local/stochastic volatility model, the resulting basket option prices will not generate a skew matching that of the options on the equity index corresponding to the basket. To address this ``insufficient skewness'', we proceed in two steps. First, we propose an ``effective'' local volatility model by mapping the general multi-dimensional basket onto a collection of marginal distributions.…
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Taxonomy
TopicsStochastic processes and financial applications · Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis · Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling
