The Bismut-Elworthy-Li formula for mean-field stochastic differential equations

Abstract: We generalise the so-called Bismut-Elworthy-Li formula to a class of stochastic differential equations whose coefficients might depend on the law of the solution. We give some examples of where this formula can be applied to in the context of finance and the computation of Greeks and provide with a simple but rather illustrative simulation experiment showing that the use of the Bismut-Elworthy-Li formula, also known as Malliavin method, is more efficient compared to the finite difference method.