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Exact sampling of jump diffusions. (English) Zbl 1291.60171

Summary: This paper develops a method for the exact simulation of a skeleton, a hitting time, and other functionals of a one-dimensional jump diffusion with state-dependent drift, volatility, jump intensity, and jump size. The method requires the drift function to be \(C^{1}\), the volatility function to be \(C^{2}\), and the jump intensity function to be locally bounded. No further structure is imposed on these functions. The method leads to unbiased simulation estimators of security prices, transition densities, hitting probabilities, and other quantities. Numerical results illustrate its features.

MSC:

60J75 Jump processes (MSC2010)
60H30 Applications of stochastic analysis (to PDEs, etc.)
91G20 Derivative securities (option pricing, hedging, etc.)