Asset pricing models : stochastic volatility and information-based approaches

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We present two option pricing models, both different from the classical Black-Scholes-Merton model. The first model, suggested by Heston, considers the case where the asset price volatility is stochastic. For this model we study the asset price process and give in detail the derivation of the European call option price process. The second model, suggested by Brody-Hughston-Macrina, describes the observation of certain information about the claim perturbed by a noise represented by a Brownian bridge. Here we also study in detail the properties of this noisy information process and give the derivations of both asset price dynamics and the European call option price process.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/16790

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Graduate School of Applied Mathematics, Thesis

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N. Çalışkan, “ Asset pricing models : stochastic volatility and information-based approaches,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2007.