The SABR Model: Explicit Formulae of the Moments of the Forward Prices/Rates Variable and Series Expansions of the Transition Probability Density and of the Option Prices

Lorella Fatone, Francesca Mariani, Maria Cristina Recchioni, Francesco Zirilli

Dipartimento di Management, Universitá Politecnica delle Marche, Piazza Martelli 8, Ancona, Italy.
Dipartimento di Matematica “G. Castelnuovo”, Universitá di Roma “La Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, Roma, Italy.
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universitá di Camerino, Via Madonna delle Carceri 9, Camerino, Italy.
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Universitá degli Studi di Verona, Vicolo Campofiore 2, Verona, Italy.

DOI: 10.4236/jamp.2014.27062                

Abstract

The SABR stochastic volatility model with β-volatility β ? (0,1) and an absorbing barrier in zero imposed to the forward prices/rates stochastic process is studied. The presence of (possibly) nonzero correlation between the stochastic differentials that appear on the right hand side of the model equations is considered. A series expansion of the transition probability density function of the model in powers of the correlation coefficient of these stochastic differentials is presented. Explicit formulae for the first three terms of this expansion are derived. These formulae are integrals of known integrands. The zero-th order term of the expansion is a new integral formula containing only elementary functions of the transition probability density function of the SABR model when the correlation coefficient is zero. The expansion is deduced from the final value problem for the backward Kolmogorov equation satisfied by the transition probability density function. Each term of the expansion is defined as the solution of a final value problem for a partial differential equation. The integral formulae that give the solutions of these final value problems are based on the Hankel and on the Kontorovich-Lebedev transforms. From the series expansion of the probability density function we deduce the corresponding expansions of the European call and put option prices. Moreover we deduce closed form formulae for the moments of the forward prices/rates variable. The moment formulae obtained do not involve integrals or series expansions and are expressed using only elementary functions. The option pricing formulae are used to study synthetic and real data. In particular we study a time series (of real data) of futures prices of the EUR/USD currency's exchange rate and of the corresponding option prices. The website:

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Keywords

SABR Stochastic Volatility Models, Option Pricing, Spectral Decomposition, FX Data

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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