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5.3. TWO-DIMENSIONAL VARIANCE GAMMA MODEL 185<br />

variance reduction, were computed using the Fourier transform algorithm <strong>de</strong>scribed in Chapter<br />

1. The standard <strong>de</strong>viation of Monte Carlo estimates of option prices was below 2 · 10 −4 at the<br />

money in all cases.<br />

The differ<strong>en</strong>ce b<strong>et</strong>we<strong>en</strong> option prices computed with and without tail <strong>de</strong>p<strong>en</strong><strong>de</strong>ce is clearly<br />

important for both types of options: as se<strong>en</strong> from Figure 5.6, neglecting tail <strong>de</strong>p<strong>en</strong><strong>de</strong>nce may<br />

easily lead to a 10% error on the option price at the money. On the other hand, this example<br />

shows that using Lévy copulas allows to take into account the tail <strong>de</strong>p<strong>en</strong><strong>de</strong>nce and discriminate<br />

b<strong>et</strong>we<strong>en</strong> two situations that would be undistinguishable in a log-normal framework.

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