Research Article

Efficient Simulation for Pricing Barrier Options with Two-Factor Stochastic Volatility and Stochastic Interest Rate

Table 2

Comparison of the accuracy of our simulation scheme and Euler scheme for pricing European options. The exact price .

Number of simulations Number of time steps Our simulation schemeEuler scheme
Standard error Relative error Standard error Relative error

1000 100 0.4780 0.0421 0.4681 0.1182
1000 500 0.4559 0.0424 0.4800 0.0472
10000 100 0.1515 0.0166 0.1533 0.0227
10000 500 0.1566 0.0032 0.1561 0.0166
100000 1000.0480 0.0267 0.0479 0.0523
100000 500 0.0480 0.0257 0.0486 0.0334