We prove the existence of statistical arbitrage opportunities for jump-diffusion models stock prices when jump-size distribution is assumed to have finite moments. show that obtain arbitrage, risky asset holding must go zero in time. Existence demonstrated via ‘buy-and-hold until barrier’ and ‘short strategies with both single double barrier. In order exploit opportunities, investor needs a goo...

Abstract This paper treats the risk-averse optimal portfolio problem with consumption in continuous time with a stochastic-volatility, jump-diffusion (SVJD) model of the underlying risky asset and the volatility. The new developments are the use of the SVJD model with double-uniform jump-amplitude distributions and time-varying market parameters for the optimal portfolio problem. Although unlim...

In this paper, we present an unbiased Monte Carlo estimator for lookback options in jumpdiffusion models. Lookback options are difficult to price in jump-diffusion models, as their pay-off depends on the maximum of the share price over a particular time interval. In general, closed form solutions for prices of lookback options are not available but even simulating the pay-off of such an option ...

This paper is a further extension of the method proposed in Itkin (2014) as applied to another set of jump-diffusion models: Inverse Normal Gaussian, Hyperbolic and Meixner. To solve the corresponding PIDEs we accomplish few steps. First, a second-order operator splitting on financial processes (diffusion and jumps) is applied to these PIDEs. To solve the diffusion equation we use standard fini...

In this paper we analyze asset returns models with diffusion part and jumps in returns with stochastic volatility either from diffusion or pure jump part. We consider different specifications for the pure jump part including compound Poisson, Variance Gamma and Levy α-stable jumps. Monte Carlo Markov chain algorithm is constructed to estimate models with latent Variance Gamma and Levy α−stable ...

This paper studies monotonicity and convexity properties of option prices in jump-diffusion models. In such models it is possible for a monotone contract function to give rise to an option price which is non-monotone in the underlying asset. This is connected to the fact that the no-crossing property, which holds for one-dimensional diffusions, may fail in the presence of jumps. We present a si...

We propose a new computational method for the valuation of options in jump-diffusion models. The option value function for European and barrier options satisfies a partial integrodifferential equation (PIDE). This PIDE is commonly integrated in time by implicit-explicit (IMEX) time discretization schemes, where the differential (diffusion) term is treated implicitly, while the integral (jump) t...