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We consider the problem of finding model-independent bounds on the price of an Asian option, when the call prices at the maturity date of the option are known. Our methods differ from most approaches to model-independent pricing in that we…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2016-07-21 Alexander M. G. Cox , Sigrid Källblad

We present the method of moments approach to pricing barrier-type options when the underlying is modelled by a general class of jump diffusions. By general principles the option prices are linked to certain infinite dimensional linear…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-25 Bjorn Eriksson , Martijn Pistorius

This paper addresses an important gap in rigorous numerical treatments for pricing American options under correlated two-asset jump-diffusion models using the viscosity solution framework, with a particular focus on the Merton model. The…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-04-11 Hao Zhou , Duy-Minh Dang

In this paper we consider the numerical solution of the two-dimensional time-dependent partial integro-differential complementarity problem (PIDCP) that holds for the value of American-style options under the two-asset Kou jump-diffusion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Karel J. in 't Hout

In this article we present a new approach to the numerical valuation of derivative securities. The method is based on our previous work where we formulated the theory of pricing in terms of tradables. The basic idea is to fit a finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-30 Jiri Hoogland , Dimitri Neumann

In the present paper, we introduce a numerical scheme for the price of a barrier option when the price of the underlying follows a diffusion process. The numerical scheme is based on an extension of a static hedging formula of barrier…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2012-08-21 Yuri Imamura , Yuta Ishigaki , Takuya Kawagoe , Toshiki Okumura

In this paper we generalize and analyze the model for pricing American-style Asian options due to (Hansen and Jorgensen 2000) by including a continuous dividend rate $q$ and a general method of averaging of the floating strike. We focus on…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2009-12-08 Tomas Bokes , Daniel Sevcovic

We introduce a new approach for the numerical pricing of American options. The main idea is to choose a finite number of suitable excessive functions (randomly) and to find the smallest majorant of the gain function in the span of these…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-10-17 Sören Christensen

European options can be priced by solving parabolic partial(-integro) differential equations under stochastic volatility and jump-diffusion models like Heston, Merton, and Bates models. American option prices can be obtained by solving…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-12-04 Maciej Balajewicz , Jari Toivanen

We derive a recursive formula for arithmetic Asian option prices with finite observation times in semimartingale models. The method is based on the relationship between the risk-neutral expectation of the quadratic variation of the return…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2013-11-21 Kyungsub Lee

Financial derivatives pricing aims to find the fair value of a financial contract on an underlying asset. Here we consider option pricing in the partial differential equations framework. The contemporary models lead to one-dimensional or…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-04-07 Karel in 't Hout , Jari Toivanen

We present a numerical approach for solving the free boundary problem for the Black-Scholes equation for pricing American style of floating strike Asian options. A fixed domain transformation of the free boundary problem into a parabolic…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2011-06-02 J. D. Kandilarov , D. Sevcovic

This paper concerns the numerical valuation of swing options with discrete action times under a linear two-factor mean-reverting model with jumps. The resulting sequence of two-dimensional partial integro-differential equations (PIDEs) are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Mustapha Regragui , Karel J. in 't Hout , Michèle Vanmaele , Fred Espen Benth

The distribution of a time integral of geometric Brownian motion is not well understood. To price an Asian option and to obtain measures of its dependence on the parameters of time, strike price, and underlying market price, it is essential…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-02 Jungmin Choi , Kyounghee Kim

In this paper we propose and analyse a method for estimating three quantities related to an Asian option: the fair price, the cumulative distribution function, and the probability density. The method involves preintegration with respect to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-13 Alexander D. Gilbert , Frances Y. Kuo , Ian H. Sloan , Abirami Srikumar

We describe general multilevel Monte Carlo methods that estimate the price of an Asian option monitored at $m$ fixed dates. Our approach yields unbiased estimators with standard deviation $O(\epsilon)$ in $O(m + (1/\epsilon)^{2})$ expected…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-11-18 Nabil Kahale

Fast pricing of American-style options has been a difficult problem since it was first introduced to financial markets in 1970s, especially when the underlying stocks' prices follow some jump-diffusion processes. In this paper, we propose a…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-05-21 Helin Zhu , Fan Ye , Enlu Zhou

It is well known how to determine the price of perpetual American options if the underlying stock price is a time-homogeneous diffusion. In the present paper we consider the inverse problem, that is, given prices of perpetual American…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-11-12 Erik Ekström , David Hobson

Recognizing the importance of jump risk in option pricing, we propose a neural jump stochastic differential equation model in this paper, which integrates neural networks as parameter estimators in the conventional jump diffusion model. To…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-06-06 Duosi Zheng , Hanzhong Guo , Yanchu Liu , Wei Huang

Following the foundational work of the Black--Scholes model, extensive research has been developed to price the option by addressing its underlying assumptions and associated pricing biases. This study introduces a novel framework for…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-08-21 Tapan Kar , Suprio Bhar , Barun Sarkar , Sesha Meka