Introduction to Implied, Local and Stochastic Volatility
Implied Volatility - Ito's Lemma
Applying Ito to the Hedging Portfolio
Risk-Neutralization and No-Arbitrage
Implied Volatility (Smiles and Skews)
Coupled SDEs for Stochastic Volatility
Risk-Neutralization and No-Arbitrage
Exact Solution for Heston Volatility
Keywords:Modelli Econometrici; Stochastic

The purpose of this document is to introduce implied, local and stochastic volatility, to review evidence of non-constant volatility, and to consider the implications for option pricing of alternative random or stochastic volatility models. We focus on continuous time diffusion models for the volatility, but we also briefly discuss certain classes of discrete time models, such as ARV or ARCH.
By Prof. Klaus Erich Schmitz Abe http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/~schmitz/
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