Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5102941 | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications | 2017 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
Derivative (i.e. option) pricing is essential for modern financial instrumentations. Despite of the previous efforts, the exact analytical forms of the derivative pricing distributions are still challenging to obtain. In this study, we established a quantitative framework using path integrals to obtain the exact analytical solutions of the statistical distribution for bond and bond option pricing for the Vasicek model. We discuss the importance of statistical fluctuations away from the expected option pricing characterized by the distribution tail and their associations to value at risk (VaR). The framework established here is general and can be applied to other financial derivatives for quantifying the underlying statistical distributions.
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Authors
Kun Zhang, Jing Liu, Erkang Wang, Jin Wang,