Regularized Calibration of Jump-Diffusion Option Pricing Models

Abstract: An important issue in finance is model calibration. The calibration problem is the inverse of the option pricing problem. Calibration is performed on a set of option prices generated from a given exponential L´evy model. By numerical examples, it is shown that the usual formulation of the inverse problem via Non-linear Least Squares is an ill-posed problem. To achieve well-posedness of the problem, some regularization is needed. Therefore a regularization method based on relative entropy is applied.