Hermite polynomial based expansion of European option prices

D **u - Journal of Econometrics, 2014 - Elsevier
We seek a closed-form series approximation of European option prices under a variety of
diffusion models. The proposed convergent series are derived using the Hermite polynomial …

An efficient method to simulate diffusion bridges

H Chau, JL Kirkby, DH Nguyen, D Nguyen… - Statistics and …, 2024 - Springer
In this paper, we provide a unified approach to simulate diffusion bridges. The proposed
method covers a wide range of processes including univariate and multivariate diffusions …

Maximum likelihood estimation of diffusions by continuous time Markov chain

JL Kirkby, DH Nguyen, D Nguyen… - Computational Statistics & …, 2022 - Elsevier
A novel method is presented for estimating the parameters of a parametric diffusion process.
The approach is based on a closed-form Maximum Likelihood estimator for an …

Calculus: High-dimensional numerical and symbolic calculus in R

E Guidotti - Journal of Statistical Software, 2022 - jstatsoft.org
The R package calculus implements C++-optimized functions for numerical and symbolic
calculus, such as the Einstein summing convention, fast computation of the LeviCivita …

A new delta expansion for multivariate diffusions via the Itô-Taylor expansion

N Yang, N Chen, X Wan - Journal of Econometrics, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper we develop a new delta expansion approach to deriving analytical
approximation to the transition densities of multivariate diffusions using the Itô-Taylor …

Parameter estimation with increased precision for elliptic and hypo-elliptic diffusions

Y Iguchi, A Beskos, M Graham - Bernoulli, 2025 - projecteuclid.org
“Supplementary Material”(Iguchi, Beskos and Graham, 2025) provides the proofs of the main
results and related technical proofs, and also contains an additional numerical experiment of …

Explicit form of approximate transition probability density functions of diffusion processes

S Choi - Journal of econometrics, 2015 - Elsevier
A continuous-time diffusion process is very popular in modeling and provides useful tools to
analyze particularly, but not restricted to, a variety of economic and financial variables. The …

Parameter estimation for threshold Ornstein–Uhlenbeck processes from discrete observations

Y Hu, Y ** - Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2022 - Elsevier
Assuming that a threshold Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process is observed at discrete time
instants, we propose generalized moment estimators to estimate the parameters. Our …

Gaussian estimation for discretely observed Cox–Ingersoll–Ross model

C Wei, H Shu, Y Liu - International Journal of General Systems, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This paper is concerned with the parameter estimation problem for Cox–Ingersoll–Ross
model based on discrete observation. First, a new discretized process is built based on the …

Estimating jump–diffusions using closed-form likelihood expansions

C Li, D Chen - Journal of Econometrics, 2016 - Elsevier
The indispensable role of likelihood expansions in financial econometrics for continuous-
time models has been established since the ground-breaking work of Aït-Sahalia (1999 …