DG method for the numerical pricing of two-asset European-style Asian options with fixed strike

Jiří Hozman; Tomáš Tichý

Applications of Mathematics (2017)

  • Volume: 62, Issue: 6, page 607-632
  • ISSN: 0862-7940

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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.

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Hozman, Jiří, and Tichý, Tomáš. "DG method for the numerical pricing of two-asset European-style Asian options with fixed strike." Applications of Mathematics 62.6 (2017): 607-632. <http://eudml.org/doc/294642>.

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author = {Hozman, Jiří, Tichý, Tomáš},
journal = {Applications of Mathematics},
keywords = {option pricing; discontinuous Galerkin method; Asian option; basket option; fixed strike},
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publisher = {Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic},
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AB - 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.
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