In mathematical finance, the CEV or constant elasticity of variance model is a stochastic volatility model, which attempts to capture stochastic volatility and the leverage effect. The model is widely used by practitioners in the financial industry, especially for modelling equities and commodities. It was developed by John Cox in 1975
Dynamic
The CEV model describes a process which evolves according to the following stochastic differential equation:
The constant parameters
The parameter