Svetlana Boyarchenko

University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics

Austin, TX 78712

United States

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1.

American Options in the Heston Model With Stochastic Interest Rate

EFA 2008 Athens Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 20 Nov 2007
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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Optimal stopping, American options, regime switching,stochastic volatility models, Heston model,stochastic interest rate, CIR process

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Practical Guide to Real Options in Discrete Time

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 06 Mar 2004
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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Real options, embedded options, expected present value operators

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User's Guide to Pricing Double Barrier Options. Part I: Kou's Model and Generalizations

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 23 Sep 2008
Mitya Boyarchenko and Svetlana Boyarchenko
University of Michigan - Department of Mathematics and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics
Downloads 613 (68,330)
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Option pricing, double barrier options, double-no-touch options, Levy processes, Kou's model, hyper-exponential jump-diffusions, Carr's randomization, Canadization, Wiener-Hopf factorization

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American Options in Regime-Switching Models

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 11 Sep 2006
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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optimal stopping, American options, finite time horizon, regime switching, Levy processes, stochastic volatility models, stochastic interest rate models

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Optimal Stopping Made Easy

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 29 Oct 2004
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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Real options, random walks on lattices, expected present value operators

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New Efficient Versions of Fourier Transform Method in Applications to Option Pricing

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 24 May 2011 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2011
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
Downloads 476 (93,450)
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European Options, Greeks, FFT, Inverse Fourier Transform, COS, CONV, KoBoL, CGMY, VG Model, Hyperbolic iFT Method, Parabolic iFT Method

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American Options in Levy Models with Stochastic Volatility

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 12 May 2008
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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optimal stopping, American options, regime switching, Levy processes, stochastic volatility models, Heston model, Bates model

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Practical Guide to Real Options in Discrete Time Ii

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 04 Jan 2005
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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Real options, embedded options, expected present value operators

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Exit Problems in Regime-Switching Models

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 08 Jun 2006
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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regime switching, Levy processes, real options, exit problems

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Snowball Effect of a CDS Market

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 31 Jul 2009
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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credit default swaps, counterparty risk, asymmetric information

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Perpetual American Options in Regime-Switching Models

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 06 Sep 2006
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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optimal stopping, American options, regime switching, Levy processes, stochastic volatility models, stochastic interest rate models

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American Options: The Epv Pricing Model

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 19 May 2004
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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Levy processes, option pricing, dividend paying assets

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American Options in Lévy Models with Stochastic Interest Rates

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Sep 2007
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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optimal stopping, American options, regime switching, Lévy processes, stochastic interest rate models, quadratic term structure models

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Double Barrier Options in Regime-Switching Hyper-Exponential Jump-Diffusion Models

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 31 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2009
Mitya Boyarchenko and Svetlana Boyarchenko
University of Michigan - Department of Mathematics and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics
Downloads 264 (178,648)
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Option pricing, double barrier options, double-no-touch options, Levy processes, Kou's model, hyper-exponential jump-diffusions, regime switching, stochastic volatility, stochastic interest rates, Carr's randomization, Canadization, analytic method of lines, Wiener-Hopf factorization

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Efficient Laplace Inversion, Wiener-Hopf Factorization and Pricing Lookbacks

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 04 Jan 2012
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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Levy processes, Wiener-Hopf factorization, lookbacks, KoBoL, CGMY

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American Options in Levy Models With Stochastic Interest Rate of CIR-Type

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 27 Nov 2007
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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optimal stopping, American options, regime switching, Levy processes, stochastic interest rate, CIR model

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American Options in Regime-Switching Lévy Models With Non-Semibounded Stochastic Interest Rates

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 20 Sep 2007
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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optimal stopping, American options, regime switching, Lévy processes, stochastic interest rate models, Vasicek model, Black's model, Ornstein-Uhlenbeck driven models, affine term structure models

18.

Life Cycle of Startup Financing

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 28 Apr 2021
Svetlana Boyarchenko
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics
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startup financing, venture capital, hump-shaped distributions

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A Theory of Endogenous Time Preference, and Discounted Utility Anomalies

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 20 Feb 2005
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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Time preference, discounted utility anomalies, decision-making under uncertainty, optimal stopping

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Real Options and the Universal Bad News Principle

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 04 May 2004
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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Exit and entry, emdebbed options, technology adoption, capital expansion

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Pricing American Options in Regime-Switching Models: FFT Realization

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 01 May 2008 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2008
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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optimal stopping, American options, finite time horizon, regime switching, Levy models, stochastic volatility models, stochastic interest rate models

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Perpetual Put-Like and Call-Like American Options Under Levy Processes, and Incremental Capital Expansion

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 06 Mar 2004
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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Levy processes, optimal stopping, general payoffs

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Buridan's Ass and a Menu of Options

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 05 Feb 2005
Svetlana Boyarchenko
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics
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Real options, menu of options

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Two-Point Boundary Problems and Perpetual American Strangles in Jump-Diffusion Models

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Apr 2006
Svetlana Boyarchenko
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics
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strangles, barrier options, jump-diffusion processes, two-point boundary problem

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General Option Exercise Rules, with Applications to Embedded Options and Monopolistic Expansion

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 02 Nov 2005
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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embedded options, technology adoption, capital expansion

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Discount Factors Ex Post and Ex Ante, and Discounted Utility Anomalies

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 04 Nov 2005
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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real options, time preference, discounted utility anomalies

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Universal Bad News Principle and Pricing of Options on Dividend-Paying Assets

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 19 Mar 2004
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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Levy processes, option pricing, dividend paying assets

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Preemption Games Under Levy Uncertainty

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Preemption Games Under Levy Uncertainty

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 15 May 2011
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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stopping time games, preemption, Levy uncertainty

Preemption Games Under Levy Uncertainty

Games and Economic Behavior, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Oct 2014
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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stopping time games, preemption, Levy uncertainty

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Efficient Pricing Barrier Options and CDS in Lévy Models with Stochastic Interest Rate

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 02 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2015
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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Stochastic interest rate, quadratic term structure models, L'evy processes, Wiener-Hopf factorization, barrier options, credit default swaps, parabolic inverse Laplace transform, parabolic inverse Fourier transform, quanto CDS

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Ambiguous Jump-Diffusions and Optimal Stopping

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 24 Oct 2014
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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optimal stopping, jump-diffusion process, ambiguity

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Optimal Stopping in Levy Models, for Non-Monotone Discontinuous Payoffs

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 08 Sep 2010
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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Optimal stopping, Levy processes, non-monotone an discontinuous payoffs

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Discounting When Income is Stochastic and Discounted Utility Anomalies

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 22 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2010
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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time preference, discounted utility anomalies

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Discount Factors Ex Post and Ex Ante, and Discounted Utility Anomalies II

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 14 Jan 2009
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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hyperbolic discounting, bid-ask asymmetry, gain-loss asymmetries

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Firm Dynamics in a Competitive Industry

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 06 Jun 2006
Svetlana Boyarchenko
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics
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Exit and entry, size distribution, age distribution, industry dynamics

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Industry Equilibrium with Random Exit or Default

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 18 May 2006
Svetlana Boyarchenko
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics
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endogenous exit, endogenous default, industry equilibrium

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Poisson Bandits of Evolving Shade of Gray

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 Aug 2015
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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two-armed Poisson bandits, optimal stopping, jump-diffusion processes

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Strategic Experimentation with Erlang Bandits

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 17 Apr 2017
Svetlana Boyarchenko
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics
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stopping time games, Erlang distribution, strategic experimentation

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Sinh-Acceleration: Efficient Evaluation of Probability Distributions, Option Pricing, and Monte-Carlo Simulations

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 05 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 09 May 2018
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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sinh-regular Lévy processes, sinh-regular distributions, sinh-acceleration, Heston model, KoBoL, CGMY, CIR, CIR subordinator, Monte-Carlo simulations

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Strategic Experimentation With Humped Bandits

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 18 May 2018
Svetlana Boyarchenko
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics
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Stopping Time Games, Time-Inhomogeneous Poisson Process, Strategic Experimentation, Breakdowns, Breakthroughs

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Perpetual American Options with Disconnected Exercise Regions in Lévy Models

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 29 Jul 2014
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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Lévy processes, perpetual American options with additional barrier, perpetual straddles and strangles, Wiener-Hopf factorization, EPV operators

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Static and Semi-Static Hedging as Contrarian or Conformist Bets

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 14 Feb 2019
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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Static Hedging, Semi-Static Hedging, Levy Processes, Exotic European Options, Barrier Options, Wiener-Hopf Factorization, Fourier-Laplace Inversion, Sinh-Acceleration

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New Families of Integral Representations and Efficient Evaluation of Stable Distributions

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 16 May 2018
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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Stable Lévy Processes, PDF, CPDF, Quantile, Conformal Principal Components, Sinh-Acceleration, Simplified Trapezoid Rule, Simplified Conic Trapezoid Rule, Richardson Extrapolation, Signal Processing

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Strategic Exit With Information and Payoff Externalities

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 03 Jun 2019
Svetlana Boyarchenko
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics
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stopping time games, sponsored research, strategic experimentation

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Gauge Transformations in the Dual Space, and Pricing and Estimation in the Long Run in Affine Jump-Diffusion Models

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2021
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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affine jump-diffusions, eigenfunction expansion, long run, estimation, Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model, Vasicek model, square root model, CIR model

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SINH-Acceleration for B-Spline Projection with Option Pricing Applications

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 23 Oct 2021
Svetlana Boyarchenko, Sergei Levendorskii, Justin Kirkby and Zhenyu Cui
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics, Calico Science Consulting, Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) and Stevens Institute of Technology - School of Business
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options pricing, Fourier, sinh-acceleration, barrier option, inversion, B-spline

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Conformal Accelerations Method and Efficient Evaluation of Stable Distributions

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 24 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2018
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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Stable Levy Processes, Monte Carlo Simulations, Conformal Principal Components, Sinh-Acceleration, Simplified Trapezoid Rule, Simplified Conic Trapezoid Rule, Richardson Extrapolation, Signal Processing

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Levy Models Amenable to Efficient Calculations

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 15 Jun 2022
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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Stieltjes-L\'evy processes, sinh-acceleration, SINH-regular L\'evy processes, HEJD, KoBoL, CGMY, NIG,Normal Tempered Stable L\'evy processes, Variance Gamma, Meixner processes, beta-model, meromorphic processes, Hyperbolic processes, Generalized Hyperbolic,subordinated BM

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Efficient Inverse Z-Transform and Pricing Barrier and Lookback Options With Discrete Monitoring

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 19 Jul 2022
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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$Z$-transform, extrema of a random walk, lookback options, barrier options, discrete monitoring, L\'evy processes, Fourier transform, Hilbert transform, Fast Fourier transform, fast Hilbert transform, trapezoid rule, sinh-acceleration

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Efficient Evaluation of Expectations of Functions of a Lévy Process and Its Extremum. II

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 08 Aug 2022
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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Lévy process, extrema of a Lévy process, lookback options, barrier options, Fourier transform, Hilbert transform, Fast Fourier transform, fast Hilbert transform, Gaver-Wynn Rho algorithm, sinh-acceleration

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Efficient Evaluation of Expectations of Functions of a Lévy Process and Its Extremum

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 Jun 2022
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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Efficient Evaluation of Expectations of Functions of a Stable Levy Process and Its Extremum

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 30 Sep 2022
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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stable L\'evy processes, extrema of a stable L\'evy process, fractional partial differential equations, Fourier transform, Gaver-Wynn Rho algorithm, sinh-acceleration, conformal acceleration technique

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Efficient Evaluation of Double-Barrier Options and Joint CPDF of a Levy Process and Its Two Extrema

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 09 Nov 2022
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and Calico Science Consulting
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Levy process, extrema of a Levy process, double barrier options, Fourier transform, Gaver-Wynn Rho algorithm, sinh-acceleration

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Efficient Variations of the Fourier Transform in Applications to Option Pricing

Journal of Computational Finance, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2014
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 04 Jun 2016
Svetlana Boyarchenko and Sergei Levendorskii
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and University of Leicester
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Fourier expansion, option pricing, iFT method