Golbabai, A.; Ballestra, L.V; Ahmadian, D., Superconvergence of the finite element solutions of the Black-Scholes equation, «FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS», 2013, 10, pp. 17 - 26 [Scientific article]
Ballestra, Luca Vincenzo; Pacelli, Graziella, A radial basis function approach to compute the first-passage probability density function in two-dimensional jump-diffusion models for financial and other applications, «ENGINEERING ANALYSIS WITH BOUNDARY ELEMENTS», 2012, 36, pp. 1546 - 1554 [Scientific article]
Ballestra, Luca Vincenzo; Ottaviani, Massimiliano; Pacelli, Graziella, An operator splitting harmonic differential quadrature approach to solve Young's model for life insurance risk, «INSURANCE MATHEMATICS & ECONOMICS», 2012, 51, pp. 442 - 448 [Scientific article]
Ballestra, Luca Vincenzo; Pacelli, Graziella, A boundary element method to price time-dependent double barrier options, «APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION», 2011, 218, pp. 4192 - 4210 [Scientific article]
Ballestra, Luca Vincenzo; Pacelli, Graziella, Computing the survival probability density function in jump-diffusion models: A new approach based on radial basis functions, «ENGINEERING ANALYSIS WITH BOUNDARY ELEMENTS», 2011, 35, pp. 1075 - 1084 [Scientific article]
Ballestra, Luca Vincenzo; Pacelli, Graziella, The constant elasticity of variance model: Calibration, test and evidence from the Italian equity market, «APPLIED FINANCIAL ECONOMICS», 2011, 21, pp. 1479 - 1487 [Scientific article]
Pacelli, Graziella; Ballestra, Luca Vincenzo, On a variational formulation used in credit risk modeling, «FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS», 2010, 7, pp. 110 - 118 [Scientific article]
Ballestra, Luca Vincenzo; Sgarra, Carlo, The evaluation of American options in a stochastic volatility model with jumps: An efficient finite element approach, «COMPUTERS & MATHEMATICS WITH APPLICATIONS», 2010, 60, pp. 1571 - 1590 [Scientific article]
Ballestra, Luca Vincenzo; Pacelli, Graziella, A numerical method to price defaultable bonds based on the Madan and Unal credit risk model, «APPLIED MATHEMATICAL FINANCE», 2009, 16, pp. 17 - 36 [Scientific article]
Ballestra, Luca Vincenzo; Pacelli, Graziella; Zirilli, Francesco, A numerical method to price European derivatives based on the one factor LIBOR Market Model of interest rates, «NONLINEAR ANALYSIS», 2008, 2, pp. 568 - 589 [Scientific article]
Ballestra, Luca Vincenzo; Pacelli, Graziella; Zirilli, Francesco, A numerical method to price exotic path-dependent options on an underlying described by the Heston stochastic volatility model, «JOURNAL OF BANKING & FINANCE», 2007, 31, pp. 3420 - 3437 [Scientific article]
Ballestra, L.V.; Ferri, R.; Pacelli, G., The Heston Stochastic Volatility Model for Single Assets and for Asset Portfolios: Parameter Estimation and an Application to the Italian Financial Market, «THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND FINANCE RESEARCH», 2007, 1, pp. 11 - 23 [Scientific article]
Ballestra, Luca V.; Sacco, Riccardo, Numerical problems in semiconductor simulation using the hydrodynamic model: A second-order finite difference scheme, «JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS», 2004, 195, pp. 320 - 340 [Scientific article]
Ballestra L.; Saleri F., Numerical solutions of a viscous-hydrodynamic model for semiconductors: The supersonic case, «COMPEL», 2003, 22, pp. 205 - 230 [Scientific article]
Ballestra L.; Micheletti S.; Sacco R., Semiconductor device simulation using a viscous-hydrodynamic model, «COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING», 2002, 191, pp. 5447 - 5466 [Scientific article]
