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The pricing of derivatives on assets with quadratic volatility 

Author: Christian Zuhlsdorff
DOI: 10.1080/13504860210127271
Publication Frequency: 6 issues per year
Published in: journal Applied Mathematical Finance, Volume 8, Issue 4 December 2001 , pages 235 - 262
Number of References: 26
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Abstract

The basic model of financial economics is the Samuelson model of geometric Brownian motion because of the celebrated Black-Scholes formula for pricing the call option. The asset's volatility is a linear function of the asset value and the model guarantees positive asset prices. In this paper, it is shown that the pricing partial differential equation can be solved for level-dependent volatility which is a quadratic polynomial. If zero is attainable, both absorption and negative asset values are possible. Explicit formulae are derived for the call option: a generalization of the Black-Scholes formula for an asset whose volatiliy is affine, the formula for the Bachelier model with constant volatility, and new formulae in the case of quadratic volatility. The implied Black-Scholes volatilities of the Bachelier and the affine model are frowns, the quadratic specifications imply smiles.
Keywords: Strong Solutions; Stochastic Differential Equation; Option Pricing; Quadratic Volatility; Implied Volatility; Smiles; Frowns
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