E.MORETTO, S. PASQUALI, B. TRIVELLATO


A stochastic volatility model for exchange rate derivatives

CNR-IMATI Technical Report 2004 - MI/9.

We present a model, based on Heston's approach, for the evaluation of European options under stochastic volatility. Similarly to Heston's, our model is flexible enough to reproduce a wide range of pricing effects that lack in the Black and Scholes setting. The reason of our choice lays in the fact that Heston's continuous-time dynamics do not have a discrete-time counterpart that can be easily managed in pricing non standard  derivatives when using binomial or trinomial trees.





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