A Control Variate Method for Monte Carlo Simulations of Heath-Jarrow-Morton Models with Jumps

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Routledge
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Citation:
Applied Mathematical Finance, 2007, 14 (5), pp. 365 - 399
Issue Date:
2007-01
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This paper examines the pricing of interest rate derivatives when the interest rate dynamics experience infrequent jump shocks modelled as a Poisson process. The pricing framework adapted was developed by Chiarella and Nikitopoulos to provide an extension of the Heath, Jarrow and Morton model to jump-diffusions and achieves Markovian structures under certain volatility specifications. Fourier Transform solutions for the price of a bond option under deterministic volatility specifications are derived and a control variate numerical method is developed under a more general state dependent volatility structure, a case in which closed form solutions are generally not possible. In doing so, a novel perspective is provided on control variate methods by going outside a given complex model to a simpler more tractable setting to provide the control variates.
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