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How Much is the Gap?: Efficient Overnight Jump Risk-Adjusted Valuation of Leveraged Certificates

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>2017
<mark>Journal</mark>Quantitative Finance
Issue number9
Volume17
Number of pages15
Pages (from-to)1387-1401
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date7/03/17
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

This paper develops a novel and highly efficient numerical algorithm for the gap risk-adjusted valuation of leveraged certificates. The existing literature relies on Monte Carlo simulations, which are not fast enough to be used in a market making environment. This is because issuers need to compute thousands of price updates per second. By valuing leveraged certificates as multi-window barrier options, we explicitly model random jumps that occur at known times, such as between the exchange closing and re-opening. Our algorithm combines the one-day transition probability with Simpson’s numerical integration rule. This yields a backward induction scheme which requires a significantly coarser spatial and time grid than finite difference methods. We confirm its robustness and accuracy through Monte Carlo simulations.

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Quantitative Finance on 7/3/2017, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14697688.2016.1276299