Christophe De Luigi

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PROct 29, 2012
Adaptive numerical integration and control variates for pricing Basket Options

Christophe De Luigi, Jérôme Lelong, Sylvain Maire

We develop a numerical method for pricing multidimensional vanilla options in the Black-Scholes framework. In low dimensions, we improve an adaptive integration algorithm proposed by two of the authors by introducing a new splitting strategy based on a geometrical criterion. In higher dimensions, this new algorithm is used as a control variate after a dimension reduction based on principal component analysis. Numerical tests are performed on the pricing of basket, put on minimum and digital options in dimensions up to ten.