Multilevel Monte Carlo methods for positivity-preserving approximations of the Heston 3/2-model

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Main Authors: Wu, Xiaojuan, Gan, Siqing
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author Wu, Xiaojuan
Gan, Siqing
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Gan, Siqing
contents This article is concerned with the multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) methods for approximating expectations of some functions of the solution to the Heston 3/2-model from mathematical finance, which takes values in $(0, \infty)$ and possesses superlinearly growing drift and diffusion coefficients. To discretize the SDE model, a new Milstein-type scheme is proposed to produce independent sample paths. The proposed scheme can be explicitly solved and is positivity-preserving unconditionally, i.e., for any time step-size $h>0$. This positivity-preserving property for large discretization time steps is particularly desirable in the MLMC setting. Furthermore, a mean-square convergence rate of order one is proved in the non-globally Lipschitz regime, which is not trivial, as the diffusion coefficient grows super-linearly. The obtained order-one convergence in turn promises the desired relevant variance of the multilevel estimator and justifies the optimal complexity $\mathcal{O}(ε^{-2})$ for the MLMC approach, where $ε> 0$ is the required target accuracy. Numerical experiments are finally reported to confirm the theoretical findings.
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spellingShingle Multilevel Monte Carlo methods for positivity-preserving approximations of the Heston 3/2-model
Wu, Xiaojuan
Gan, Siqing
Numerical Analysis
This article is concerned with the multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) methods for approximating expectations of some functions of the solution to the Heston 3/2-model from mathematical finance, which takes values in $(0, \infty)$ and possesses superlinearly growing drift and diffusion coefficients. To discretize the SDE model, a new Milstein-type scheme is proposed to produce independent sample paths. The proposed scheme can be explicitly solved and is positivity-preserving unconditionally, i.e., for any time step-size $h>0$. This positivity-preserving property for large discretization time steps is particularly desirable in the MLMC setting. Furthermore, a mean-square convergence rate of order one is proved in the non-globally Lipschitz regime, which is not trivial, as the diffusion coefficient grows super-linearly. The obtained order-one convergence in turn promises the desired relevant variance of the multilevel estimator and justifies the optimal complexity $\mathcal{O}(ε^{-2})$ for the MLMC approach, where $ε> 0$ is the required target accuracy. Numerical experiments are finally reported to confirm the theoretical findings.
title Multilevel Monte Carlo methods for positivity-preserving approximations of the Heston 3/2-model
topic Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05837