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Varadhan's formula, conditioned diffusions, and local volatilities
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Motivated by marginals-mimicking results for It\^o processes via SDEs and by their applications to volatility modeling in finance, we discuss the weak convergence of the law of a hypoelliptic diffusions conditioned to belong to a target affine subspace at final time, namely $\mathcal{L}(Z_t|Y_t = y)$ if $X_{\cdot}=(Y_\cdot,Z_{\cdot})$. To do so, we revisit Varadhan-type estimates in a small-noise regime (as opposed to small-time), studying the density of the lower-dimensional component $Y$. The application to stochastic volatility models include the small-time and, for certain models, the large-strike asymptotics of the Gyongy-Dupire's local volatility function. The final product are asymptotic formulae that can (i) motivate parameterizations of the local volatility surface and (ii) be used to extrapolate local volatilities in a given model.<br />Comment: 34 pages, 2 figures
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1311.1545
- Document Type :
- Working Paper