Lookback options with discrete and partial monitoring of the underlying price
Authors:
R. C. Heynen a;
H. M. Kat a
| Affiliation: | a Tokyo Branch, The First National Bank of Chicago, Tokyo, Japan |
DOI:
10.1080/13504869500000014
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Abstract
We show that in the world of Black and Scholes (1973) lookback options where the underlying price is monitored discretely instead of continuously can be priced in semi-closed form. We derive pricing formulas for a variety of full and partial lookback options, where monitoring takes place at not necessarily equally-spaced points in time. Analysis of the results shows that monitoring the underlying price discretely instead of continuously may have a significant effect on the prices of lookback options but does not introduce new hedging problems.
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| Keywords: exotic options; lookback options; risk neutral valuation; multivariate normal distribution; numerical integration |
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