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Cumulant Expansion and Monthly Sum Derivative

Pricing of Securities 2010-12-09 v3 Computational Finance

Abstract

Cumulant expansion is used to derive accurate closed-form approximation for Monthly Sum Options in case of constant volatility model. Payoff of Monthly Sum Option is based on sum of NN caped (and probably floored) returns. It is noticed, that 1/N1/\sqrt{N} can be used as a small parameter in Edgeworth expansion. First two leading terms of this expansion are calculated here. It is shown that the suggest closed-form approximation is in a good agreement with numerical results for typical mode parameters.

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@article{arxiv.1011.3975,
  title  = {Cumulant Expansion and Monthly Sum Derivative},
  author = {V. M. Belyaev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.3975},
  year   = {2010}
}

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8 pages, 2 figures