Thursday, June 6, 2019

black scholes - What are d1 and d2 for Laplace?


What are the formulae for d1 & d2 using a Laplace distribution?




Answer



Your question is interesting because I thought that the only chance with Lévy-processes is to use Fourier-transform approaches (see e.g. Cont,Tankov).


But in the paper Option Pricing for Log-Symmetric Distributions of Returns by Fima C. Klebaner· Zinoviy Landsman they consider models, where the log of the price has a symmetric distribution. In Corollary 3.2 they propose an approximate formula if the log of the price follows the Laplace distribution where d1,2=ln(S0/K)+(r±log(1σ2/2))TσT.

They write log but I guess this is just an ln as before. But please try yourself and/or read the first pages of the paper to be sure.


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