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Package: RHestonSLV
Type: Package
Title: What the Package Does (Title Case)
Title: R Implementation of the Heston Stochastic Local Volatility Model
Version: 0.1.0
Author: Klaus Spanderen
Maintainer: <[email protected]>
Description: Heston Stochastic local volatility calibration
Description: The RHestonSLV package makes the implementation of the
Heston Stochastic Local Volatility Model within QuantLib accessible from R
License: GPL 2.0
LazyData: TRUE
Imports:
Rcpp (>= 0.11.0)
LinkingTo:
Rcpp
SystemRequirements: QuantLib library (>= 1.8.0) from
http://quantlib.org, Boost library from http://www.boost.org
NeedsCompilation: yes
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## RHestonSLV

### About

The RHestonSLV package makes the implementation of the Heston
Stochastic Local Volatility model in
[QuantLib](https://github.com/lballabio/quantlib) visible to the R
user.

Local Stochastic Volatility (LSV) models have become the industry standard
for FX and equity markets. The local volatility extension of the popular Heston
stochastic volatility model is a promising candidate within the zoo of LSV models.
But the calibration of this model is not only computational demanding but also tricky
from an algorithmic point of view, especially if the Feller constraint is violated
The two main solutions to tackle the calibration problem are either solving the
Fokker-Planck forward equation via finite difference methods or based on
efficient Monte-Carlo simulations. Pricing and greek calculations for vanilla and more
exotic options are also supported.


### Authors

Klaus Spanderen

### License

GPL2

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