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On Asian Option Pricing For Generalized Model Of Black-Scholes Model

Posted on:2009-12-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y Y ShiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2189360245475962Subject:Operational Research and Cybernetics
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This paper is concerned with the pricing of arithmetic average Asian options. In the celebrated B-S model, the underlying asset is continuous-time and volatility and riskless are constants , hence a closed form solution for the pricing problem is given. But in fact , empirical studies show that some great events can lead to brusque variations in price , namely Asian option with jumps and empirical study has proved that volatility is not constant in general. So we need to modify the B-S model so that it conforms to the reality situation at first.We mainly discuss two generalized models: Which one is that the volatility is assumed to be stochastic and the price of the underlying asset is driven by Brown motion , so that we can propose a new generalized model of the B-S model; The other is that the volatility is assumed to be stochastic and the price of the underlying asset is a Lévy process, namely we can further promote the model on the basis of the first one . Then we assume that the price of the underlying asset subjects to the two models respectively , and derive the obvious formula or upper bounds for arithmetic average Asian option prices.
Keywords/Search Tags:B-S model, Measure transforms, Lévy processes, Asian option pricing
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