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Refining a discrete model of Cheuk and Vorst we obtain a closed formula for the price of a European lookback option at any time between emission and maturity. We derive an asymptotic expansion of the price as the number of periods tends to…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-02-11 Karl Grosse-Erdmann , Fabien Heuwelyckx

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