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Title: DG method for the numerical pricing of two-asset European-style Asian options with fixed strike (English)
Author: Hozman, Jiří
Author: Tichý, Tomáš
Language: English
Journal: Applications of Mathematics
ISSN: 0862-7940 (print)
ISSN: 1572-9109 (online)
Volume: 62
Issue: 6
Year: 2017
Pages: 607-632
Summary lang: English
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Category: math
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Summary: The evaluation of option premium is a very delicate issue arising from the assumptions made under a financial market model, and pricing of a wide range of options is generally feasible only when numerical methods are involved. This paper is based on our recent research on numerical pricing of path-dependent multi-asset options and extends these results also to the case of Asian options with fixed strike. First, we recall the three-dimensional backward parabolic PDE describing the evolution of European-style Asian option contracts on two assets, whose payoff depends on the difference of the strike price and the average value of the basket of two underlying assets during the life of the option. Further, a suitable transformation of variables respecting this complex form of a payoff function reduces the problem to a two-dimensional equation belonging to the class of convection-diffusion problems and the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is applied to it in order to utilize its solving potentials. The whole procedure is accompanied with theoretical results and differences to the floating strike case are discussed. Finally, reference numerical experiments on real market data illustrate comprehensive empirical findings on Asian options. (English)
Keyword: option pricing
Keyword: discontinuous Galerkin method
Keyword: Asian option
Keyword: basket option
Keyword: fixed strike
MSC: 35Q91
MSC: 65M60
MSC: 91G60
MSC: 91G80
idZBL: Zbl 06861548
idMR: MR3745743
DOI: 10.21136/AM.2017.0176-17
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Date available: 2018-01-02T13:44:01Z
Last updated: 2020-07-02
Stable URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10338.dmlcz/147000
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