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3.6. NUMERICAL AND EMPIRICAL TESTS 119<br />

3.5.3 Overview of the algorithm<br />

Here is the final numerical algorithm, as implem<strong>en</strong>ted in the computer program levycalibration,<br />

used to run the tests of Section 3.6.<br />

• Fix the prior using one of the m<strong>et</strong>hods <strong>de</strong>scribed in Section 3.2. In the tests below, a<br />

user-specified prior was tak<strong>en</strong>.<br />

• Compute the weights of mark<strong>et</strong> option prices (Section 3.4) and estimate the noise level<br />

(Section 3.3.3).<br />

• Use one of the a posteriori m<strong>et</strong>hods of Section 3.3.1 to compute an optimal regularization<br />

param<strong>et</strong>er α ∗ achieving tra<strong>de</strong>-off b<strong>et</strong>we<strong>en</strong> precision and stability. The optimal α ∗ is computed<br />

by bisection, minimizing ˜J α several times for differ<strong>en</strong>t values of α with low precision.<br />

In the tests below we have always be<strong>en</strong> able to choose α ∗ using the discrepancy principle<br />

(3.13) with c 1 = 1.1 and c 2 = 1.3, so there was no need to resort to the alternative scheme<br />

(3.19).<br />

• Minimize ˜J α ∗ with high precision to find the regularized solution Q ∗ .<br />

3.6 Numerical and empirical tests<br />

Our numerical tests, performed using the levycalibration program, fall into two categories.<br />

First, to assess the accuracy and numerical stability of our m<strong>et</strong>hod, we tested it on option prices<br />

produced by a known expon<strong>en</strong>tial-Lévy mo<strong>de</strong>l (Section 3.6.1). We th<strong>en</strong> applied our algorithm<br />

to real options data, using the prices of European options on differ<strong>en</strong>t European stock mark<strong>et</strong><br />

indices, provi<strong>de</strong>d by Thomson Financial R and studied the properties of Lévy measures, implied<br />

by mark<strong>et</strong> data.<br />

3.6.1 Tests on simulated data<br />

A compound Poisson example: Kou’s mo<strong>de</strong>l In the first series of tests, option prices<br />

were g<strong>en</strong>erated using Kou’s jump diffusion mo<strong>de</strong>l [62] with a diffusion part with volatility<br />

σ 0 = 10% and a Lévy <strong>de</strong>nsity giv<strong>en</strong> by Equation (1.17).

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