Basket options valuation for a local volatility jump-diffusion model with the asymptotic expansion method

In this paper we discuss the basket options valuation for a jumo-diffusion model The underlying asset prices follow some correlated local volatility diffusion processes with systematic jumps We derive a forward partial integral differential equation (PIDE) for general stochastic processes and use the asymptotic expansion method to approximate the conditional expectation of the stochastic variance associated with the basket value process The numerical tests show that the suggested method is fast and accurate in comparison with the Monte Carlo and other met hods in most cases (C) 2010 Elsevier B V All rights reserved