State of the art tutorial II: simulations for financial engineering: efficient simulations for option pricing

ABSTRACT

This paper presents an overview of techniques for improving the efficiency of option pricing simulations, including quasi-Monte Carlo methods, variance reduction, and methods for dealing with discretization error.

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