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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
Publication Frequency: 6 issues per year
Published in: journal Applied Mathematical Finance, Volume 2, Issue 4 October 1995 , pages 273 - 284
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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.
Keywords: exotic options; lookback options; risk neutral valuation; multivariate normal distribution; numerical integration
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