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Book An Analytic Approach to the Valuation of American Path Dependent Options

Download or read book An Analytic Approach to the Valuation of American Path Dependent Options written by Bin Gao and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, we propose a general method for pricing and hedging non-standard American options. The proposed method applies to any kind of American-style contract for which the payoff function has a Markovian representation in the state space. Specifically, we obtain an analytic solution for the value and hedge parameters of path-dependent American options such as barrier options. The solution includes standard American options as a special case. The analytic formula also allows us to identify and exploit two key properties of the optimal exercise boundary-homogeneity in price parameters and time-invariance acirc;not; for American options. In addition, some new put-call acirc;not;Ssymmetryacirc;not;? relations are also derived. These properties suggest a new, efficient and integrated approach to pricing and hedging a variety of standard and non-standard American options. From an implementation perspective, this approach avoids the current practice of repetitive computation of options prices and hedge ratios. Our implementation of the analytic formula for barrier options indicates that the proposed approach is both efficient and accurate in computing option values and option hedge parameters. In some cases, our method is faster by about four orders of magnitude than existing numerical methods with equal accuracy. In particular, the method overcomes the difficulty that existing numerical methods have in dealing with prices close to the barrier, the case where the barrier matters most.

Book Valuation of Multidimensional American Path dependent Options

Download or read book Valuation of Multidimensional American Path dependent Options written by Stefan Scholz and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Financial Derivatives

Download or read book Financial Derivatives written by Jamil Baz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-12 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a complete, succinct account of the principles of financial derivatives pricing. The first chapter provides readers with an intuitive exposition of basic random calculus. Concepts such as volatility and time, random walks, geometric Brownian motion, and Ito's lemma are discussed heuristically. The second chapter develops generic pricing techniques for assets and derivatives, determining the notion of a stochastic discount factor or pricing kernel, and then uses this concept to price conventional and exotic derivatives. The third chapter applies the pricing concepts to the special case of interest rate markets, namely, bonds and swaps, and discusses factor models and term structure consistent models. The fourth chapter deals with a variety of mathematical topics that underlie derivatives pricing and portfolio allocation decisions such as mean-reverting processes and jump processes and discusses related tools of stochastic calculus such as Kolmogorov equations, martingale techniques, stochastic control, and partial differential equations.

Book The Valuation of American Barrier Options Using the Decomposition Technique

Download or read book The Valuation of American Barrier Options Using the Decomposition Technique written by Marti G. Subrahmanyam and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, we propose an alternative approach for pricing and hedging non-standard American options. In principle, the proposed approach applies to any kind of American-style contract for which the payoff function has a Markovian representation in the state space. Specifically, we obtain an analytic solution for the value and hedge parameters of barrier options, an important example of path-dependent options. The solution includes standard American options as a special case. The analytic formula also allows us to identify and exploit two key properties of the optimal exercise boundary - homogeneity in price parameters and time-invariance - for American options. In addition, some new put-call ``symmetryquot; relations are also derived. These properties suggest a new, efficient and integrated approach to pricing and hedging a variety of standard and non-standard American options. From an implementation perspective, this approach avoids the current practice of repetitive computation of option prices and hedge ratios. Our implementation of the analytic formula for barrier options indicates that the proposed approach is both efficient and accurate in computing option values and option hedge parameters. In some cases, our method is substantially faster than existing numerical methods with equal accuracy. In particular, the method overcomes the difficulty that existing numerical methods have in dealing with prices close to the barrier, the case where the barrier matters most.

Book Convergence of Binomial Tree Method for European American Path Dependent Options

Download or read book Convergence of Binomial Tree Method for European American Path Dependent Options written by Lishang Jiang and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The binomial tree method, first proposed by Cox et al. (1979), is the most popular approach to pricing options. By introducing an additional path-dependent variable, such method can be readily extended to the valuation of path-dependent options. Barraquand et al. (1996) presented the so-called forward shooting grid method, which is a modification of binomial tree method, to cope with arithmetic average options. In this paper, using numerical analysis and the notion of viscosity solutions, we present a unifying theoretical framework to show the uniform convergence of binomial tree methods for European/American path-dependent options, including arithmetic average options, geometric average options and lookback options.

Book Convergence Analysis of Binomial Tree Method for American Type Path Dependent Options

Download or read book Convergence Analysis of Binomial Tree Method for American Type Path Dependent Options written by Min Dai and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pricing models of American-type path-dependent options are of degenerate parabolic obstacle problems. The binomial tree method is the most popular approach to pricing options. For some special cases, this method is modified in order to make it feasible. The main purpose of this paper is, using numerical analysis and the notion of viscosity solutions, to show the uniform convergence of the binomial tree method and the modified binomial tree method for American-type path-dependent options.Numerical experiments are given to demonstrate our conclusion.

Book The Journal of Computational Finance

Download or read book The Journal of Computational Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Journal of Derivatives

Download or read book The Journal of Derivatives written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of Quantitative Finance and Risk Management

Download or read book Handbook of Quantitative Finance and Risk Management written by Cheng-Few Lee and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 1700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantitative finance is a combination of economics, accounting, statistics, econometrics, mathematics, stochastic process, and computer science and technology. Increasingly, the tools of financial analysis are being applied to assess, monitor, and mitigate risk, especially in the context of globalization, market volatility, and economic crisis. This two-volume handbook, comprised of over 100 chapters, is the most comprehensive resource in the field to date, integrating the most current theory, methodology, policy, and practical applications. Showcasing contributions from an international array of experts, the Handbook of Quantitative Finance and Risk Management is unparalleled in the breadth and depth of its coverage. Volume 1 presents an overview of quantitative finance and risk management research, covering the essential theories, policies, and empirical methodologies used in the field. Chapters provide in-depth discussion of portfolio theory and investment analysis. Volume 2 covers options and option pricing theory and risk management. Volume 3 presents a wide variety of models and analytical tools. Throughout, the handbook offers illustrative case examples, worked equations, and extensive references; additional features include chapter abstracts, keywords, and author and subject indices. From "arbitrage" to "yield spreads," the Handbook of Quantitative Finance and Risk Management will serve as an essential resource for academics, educators, students, policymakers, and practitioners.

Book American Type Options

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  • Author : Dmitrii S. Silvestrov
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 2013-11-27
  • ISBN : 3110329824
  • Pages : 520 pages

Download or read book American Type Options written by Dmitrii S. Silvestrov and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book gives a systematical presentation of stochastic approximation methods for models of American-type options with general pay-off functions for discrete time Markov price processes. Advanced methods combining backward recurrence algorithms for computing of option rewards and general results on convergence of stochastic space skeleton and tree approximations for option rewards are applied to a variety of models of multivariate modulated Markov price processes. The principal novelty of presented results is based on consideration of multivariate modulated Markov price processes and general pay-off functions, which can depend not only on price but also an additional stochastic modulating index component, and use of minimal conditions of smoothness for transition probabilities and pay-off functions, compactness conditions for log-price processes and rate of growth conditions for pay-off functions. The book also contains an extended bibliography of works in the area. This book is the first volume of the comprehensive two volumes monograph. The second volume will present results on structural studies of optimal stopping domains, Monte Carlo based approximation reward algorithms, and convergence of American-type options for autoregressive and continuous time models, as well as results of the corresponding experimental studies.

Book Journal of Economic Dynamics   Control

Download or read book Journal of Economic Dynamics Control written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On the Valuation of American Exchange Options

Download or read book On the Valuation of American Exchange Options written by Andreas Andrikopoulos and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We adopt a quadratic approach to the valuation of the option to exchange one asset for another, when the option owner has the right to exercise prior to option expiration. Accurate pricing results are obtained and tested against competitive models in the literature, building on the hypothesis that option value is the product of two functions, one being a function of time, and the other one being a function of the stock prices.

Book Financial Econometrics  Mathematics and Statistics

Download or read book Financial Econometrics Mathematics and Statistics written by Cheng-Few Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rigorous textbook introduces graduate students to the principles of econometrics and statistics with a focus on methods and applications in financial research. Financial Econometrics, Mathematics, and Statistics introduces tools and methods important for both finance and accounting that assist with asset pricing, corporate finance, options and futures, and conducting financial accounting research. Divided into four parts, the text begins with topics related to regression and financial econometrics. Subsequent sections describe time-series analyses; the role of binomial, multi-nomial, and log normal distributions in option pricing models; and the application of statistics analyses to risk management. The real-world applications and problems offer students a unique insight into such topics as heteroskedasticity, regression, simultaneous equation models, panel data analysis, time series analysis, and generalized method of moments. Written by leading academics in the quantitative finance field, allows readers to implement the principles behind financial econometrics and statistics through real-world applications and problem sets. This textbook will appeal to a less-served market of upper-undergraduate and graduate students in finance, economics, and statistics. ​

Book Monte Carlo and Quasi Monte Carlo Methods 2000

Download or read book Monte Carlo and Quasi Monte Carlo Methods 2000 written by Kai-Tai Fang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing which was held at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2000. An important feature are invited surveys of the state-of-the-art in key areas such as multidimensional numerical integration, low-discrepancy point sets, random number generation, and applications of Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods. These proceedings include also carefully selected contributed papers on all aspects of Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods. The reader will be informed about current research in this very active field.

Book Martingale Methods in Financial Modelling

Download or read book Martingale Methods in Financial Modelling written by Marek Musiela and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and self-contained treatment of the theory and practice of option pricing. The role of martingale methods in financial modeling is exposed. The emphasis is on using arbitrage-free models already accepted by the market as well as on building the new ones. Standard calls and puts together with numerous examples of exotic options such as barriers and quantos, for example on stocks, indices, currencies and interest rates are analysed. The importance of choosing a convenient numeraire in price calculations is explained. Mathematical and financial language is used so as to bring mathematicians closer to practical problems of finance and presenting to the industry useful maths tools.

Book Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management

Download or read book Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management written by Cheng-Few Lee and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2001-09-14 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research annual publication intends to bring together investment analysis and portfolio theory and their implementation to portfolio management. It seeks theoretical and empirical research manuscripts with high quality in the area of investment and portfolio analysis. The contents will consist of original research on: The principles of portfolio management of equities and fixed-income securities. The evaluation of portfolios (or mutual funds) of common stocks, bonds, international assets, and options. The dynamic process of portfolio management. Strategies of international investments and portfolio management. The applications of useful and important analytical techniques such as mathematics, econometrics, statistics, and computers in the field of investment and portfolio management. Theoretical research related to options and futures. In addition, it also contains articles that present and examine new and important accounting, financial, and economic data for managing and evaluating portfolios of risky assets.