Malliavin Greeks without Malliavin calculus (Q2464862)

Consider the expected value of a contingent claim \[ u(x)=E[\Phi(X_{t_1},\ldots,X_{t_m})], \] where \(X_t\) is the solution of a stochastic differential equation \[ dX_t=\mu(X_t)dt+\sigma(X_t)dW_t,\qquad X_0=x. \] The problem of ``Greeks'' for such a claim consists of computing the derivative of \(u(x)\) with respect to various perturbations: a change of the initial value \(x\) (delta), a perturbation of the diffusion coefficient \(\sigma\) (vega), or a perturbation of the drift coefficient \(\mu\) (rho). In this work, a time discretization is applied on the equation by means of the Euler scheme, and unbiased estimators of the Greeks for the discretized equation are given. Then, letting the discretization step tend to 0, the consistency of these estimators and of the corresponding continuous time estimators (based on Malliavin's calculus) is proved.