The Heston Model is a tool for pricing European options using stochastic volatility rather than constant volatility. This model considers the correlation between a stock’s price and its volatility, ...
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Stochastic volatility models provide a framework in which the variability of asset returns is itself a random process, addressing empirical features such as volatility clustering, leverage effects and ...