Leif B. G. Andersen

Bank of America

Managing Director

One Bryant Park

New York, NY 10036

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

25

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Scholarly Papers (25)

1.

Efficient Simulation of the Heston Stochastic Volatility Model

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Nov 2006
Leif B. G. Andersen
Bank of America
Downloads 13,347 (711)
Citation 154

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Heston model, Monte Carlo simulation, SDE discretization, bias reduction, affine square-root models

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A Simple Approach to the Pricing of Bermudan Swaptions in the Multi-Factor Libor Market Model

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 Apr 1999
Leif B. G. Andersen
Bank of America
Downloads 7,431 (1,933)
Citation 34

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Calibration and Implementation of Convertible Bond Models

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 28 Mar 2003
Leif B. G. Andersen and Dan Buffum
Bank of America and Bank of America
Downloads 6,735 (2,289)
Citation 18

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Jump-Diffusion Processes: Volatility Smile Fitting and Numerical Methods for Pricing

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 11 Aug 1999
Leif B. G. Andersen and Jesper Andreasen
Bank of America and Verition Group LLC
Downloads 5,964 (2,814)
Citation 94

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Markov Models for Commodity Futures: Theory and Practice

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 30 May 2008 Last Revised: 30 Dec 2008
Leif B. G. Andersen
Bank of America
Downloads 5,615 (3,124)
Citation 14

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commodity futures, natural gas, seasonality, jump-diffusion, stochastic volatility, regime-switching, Markov model

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Moment Explosions in Stochastic Volatility Models

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 29 Jun 2004
Leif B. G. Andersen and Vladimir Piterbarg
Bank of America and NatWest MarketsImperial College London
Downloads 5,191 (3,604)
Citation 52

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Stochastic volatility models, CEV model, displaced diffusion, moment stability, martingale property, integrability, volatility smile asymptotics

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Yield Curve Construction with Tension Splines

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 19 Dec 2005
Leif B. G. Andersen
Bank of America
Downloads 5,174 (3,620)
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tension splines, term structure of interest rates, yield curve, bond pricing, swap pricing

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Volatility Skews and Extensions of the Libor Market Model

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 04 Sep 1998
Leif B. G. Andersen and Jesper Andreasen
Bank of America and Verition Group LLC
Downloads 4,917 (3,959)
Citation 35

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Extended Libor Market Models with Stochastic Volatility

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 31 Dec 2001
Leif B. G. Andersen and Rupert Brotherton-Ratcliffe
Bank of America and Gen Re Securities
Downloads 4,424 (4,717)
Citation 47

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Volatility smiles, stochastic volatility, Libor market model, asymptotic expansions, ADI finite differences, Monte Carlo simulation

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High Performance American Option Pricing

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 11 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 06 May 2020
Leif B. G. Andersen, Mark Lake and Dimitri Offengenden
Bank of America, Bank of America and Strategist
Downloads 3,854 (5,932)
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American option pricing, integral equations, fixed point algorithm, Chebyshev interpolation, collocation methods

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Static Replication of Barrier Options: Some General Results

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 19 May 2000
Leif B. G. Andersen, Jesper Andreasen and David A. Eliezer
Bank of America, Verition Group LLC and General Reinsurance Financial Products in New York
Downloads 3,268 (7,773)
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Factor Dependence of Bermudan Swaption Prices: Fact or Fiction?

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 09 May 2000
Leif B. G. Andersen and Jesper Andreasen
Bank of America and Verition Group LLC
Downloads 3,133 (8,304)
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Rethinking Margin Period of Risk

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 22 Jan 2016
Leif B. G. Andersen, Michael Pykhtin and Alexander Sokol
Bank of America, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and CompatibL
Downloads 2,697 (10,540)
Citation 10

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Margin Period of Risk, Swaps, Collateral, Credit Exposure, CVA

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Accounting for OTC Derivatives: Funding Adjustments and the Re-Hypothecation Option

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 21 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2014
Claudio Albanese and Leif B. G. Andersen
Global Valuation and Bank of America
Downloads 2,217 (14,373)
Citation 15

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Funding, collateral, FVA, CVA, DVA, accounting

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Option Pricing with Quadratic Volatility: A Revisit

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 10 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2008
Leif B. G. Andersen
Bank of America
Downloads 2,163 (14,967)
Citation 6

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Quadratic SDE, option pricing, local martingale, volatility smiles

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Citation 41

Funding Value Adjustments

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 13 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2017
Leif B. G. Andersen, Darrell Duffie and Yang Song
Bank of America, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business
Downloads 1,982 (16,868)
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Funding value adjustment, swap XVAs, debit value adjustment, debt overhang

Funding Value Adjustments

NBER Working Paper No. w23680
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 21 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2023
Leif B. G. Andersen, Darrell Duffie and Yang Song
Bank of America, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business
Downloads 125 (469,571)
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Credit Exposure in the Presence of Initial Margin

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 08 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 09 May 2017
Leif B. G. Andersen, Michael Pykhtin and Alexander Sokol
Bank of America, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and CompatibL
Downloads 2,100 (15,672)
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margin period of risk, initial margin, credit exposure, uncleared margin rules, kernel regression

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The FVA Puzzle: Accounting, Risk Management and Collateral Trading

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 01 Nov 2014
Claudio Albanese, Leif B. G. Andersen and Stefano Iabichino
Global Valuation, Bank of America and UBS Investment Bank
Downloads 1,745 (21,043)
Citation 20

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Funding, FVA, CVA, XVA, stress testing, funding arbitrage, accounting, OTC

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Parameter Averaging of Quadratic SDEs With Stochastic Volatility

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 10 Feb 2009
Leif B. G. Andersen and Nicolas A. Hutchings
Bank of America and Banc of America Securities LLC
Downloads 1,655 (22,802)
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Time-averaging, local-stochastic volatility, quadratic local volatility, Heston process

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Spike Modeling for Interest Rate Derivatives with an Application to SOFR Caplets

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 17 Nov 2020
Leif B. G. Andersen and Dominique R. A. Bang
Bank of America and Bank of America
Downloads 1,414 (28,874)
Citation 6

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Libor Benchmark Reform, SOFR, Repo Rates, Short-Term Rate Spikes, Caplets, Markov Chains

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Robust High-Precision Option Pricing by Fourier Transforms: Contour Deformations and Double-Exponential Quadrature

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2018
Leif B. G. Andersen and Mark Lake
Bank of America and Bank of America
Downloads 831 (61,608)
Citation 3

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Option Pricing, Fourier Methods, Contour Deformation, Heston Model, Double-Exponential Rule

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Funding and Credit Risk with Locally Elliptical Portfolio Processes: An Application to CCPs

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 29 Apr 2018
Leif B. G. Andersen and Andrew Samuel Dickinson
Bank of America and Bank of America
Downloads 557 (103,005)
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Central Clearing, CCP, Fat Tailed Processes, Initial Margin, CVA, MVA

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High-Performance Applications of the Non-Uniform Fast Fourier Transform to Option Pricing

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 25 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2025
Leif B. G. Andersen and Mark Lake
Bank of America and Bank of America
Downloads 551 (104,397)
Citation 1

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Non-Uniform Fast Fourier Transform, NUFFT, double-exponential quadrature, option pricing, stochastic volatility

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Asymptotics for Exponential Levy Processes and Their Volatility Smile: Survey and New Results

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 28 Jun 2012
Leif B. G. Andersen and Alex Lipton
Bank of America and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Downloads 425 (142,753)
Citation 10

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option pricing, Levy processes, local volatility processes, small-time asymptotics, large-time asymptotics, wing asymptotics

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A New Framework for Dynamic Credit Portfolio Loss Modelling

International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 163-197, 2008
Posted: 30 Nov 2009
Jakob Sidenius, Vladimir Piterbarg and Leif B. G. Andersen
Independent, NatWest MarketsImperial College London and Bank of America

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Dynamic model of CDOs, dynamic copula, conditional Markov process, options on tranches, option on CDO tranche, portfolio loss, SPA model, leveraged super-senior

Other Papers (1)

Total Downloads: 57
1.

Funding Value Adjustments

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 03 Jul 2016
Leif B. G. Andersen, Darrell Duffie and Yang Song
Bank of America, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business
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Funding value adjustment, swap XVAs, debit value adjustment, debt overhang