WIAS Preprint No. 1764, (2013)

Simulation of conditional diffusions via forward-reverse stochastic representations



Authors

  • Bayer, Christian
    ORCID: 0000-0002-9116-0039
  • Schoenmakers, John G. M.
    ORCID: 0000-0002-4389-8266

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 65C05 65C30

Keywords

  • Forward-reverse representations, pinned diffusions, conditional diffusions, Monte Carlo simulation

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.1764

Abstract

In this paper we derive stochastic representations for the finite dimensional distributions of a multidimensional diffusion on a fixed time interval, conditioned on the terminal state. The conditioning can be with respect to a fixed point or more generally with respect to some subset. The representations rely on a reverse process connected with the given (forward) diffusion as introduced in Milstein et al. [Bernoulli, 10(2):281-312, 2004] in the context of a forward-reverse transition density estimator. The corresponding Monte Carlo estimators have essentially root-N accuracy, hence they do not suffer from the curse of dimensionality. We provide a detailed convergence analysis and give a numerical example involving the realized variance in a stochastic volatility asset model conditioned on a fixed terminal value of the asset.

Appeared in

  • Ann. Appl. Probab., 24 (2014) pp. 1994--2032

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