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        Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management

                            The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Date: Tuesday, September 3, 2024, 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm HKT

Venue: ERB 513, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Title: Efficient simulation of the SABR model

Speaker: Prof. Jaehyuk Choi, Peking University HSBC Business School



Abstract:

We propose an efficient and reliable simulation scheme for the stochastic-alpha-beta-rho (SABR) model. The two challenges of the SABR simulation lie in sampling (i) the integrated variance conditional on terminal volatility and (ii) the terminal price conditional on terminal volatility and integrated variance. For the first sampling procedure, we analytically derive the first four moments of the conditional average variance, and sample it from the moment-matched shifted lognormal approximation. For the second sampling procedure, we approximate the conditional terminal price as a constant-elasticity-of-variance (CEV) distribution. Our CEV approximation preserves the martingale condition and precludes arbitrage, which is a key advantage over Islah's approximation used in most SABR simulation schemes in the literature. Then, we adopt the exact sampling method of the CEV distribution based on the shifted-Poisson-mixture Gamma random variable. Our enhanced procedures avoid the tedious Laplace inversion algorithm for sampling integrated variance and non-efficient inverse transform sampling of the forward price in some of the earlier simulation schemes. Numerical results demonstrate our simulation scheme to be highly efficient, accurate, and reliable.



Biography:

Jaehyuk Choi is an Associate Professor at Peking University HSBC Business School. Before joining academia, He worked as a fixed-income quant analyst for Goldman Sachs in New York and Hong Kong for nine years. He is a co-founder and an advisor of quants.net, a financial software company. His research interests include mathematical finance, machine learning, and numerical methods.



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