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Static-arbitrage upper bounds for the prices of basket options 

Authors: David Hobson ab;  Peter Laurence c; Tai-Ho Wang d
Affiliations:   a Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY,, UK
b Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
c Dipartimento di Matematica, Universitagrave di Roma, 'La Sapienza', 00185 Roma, Italia
d Department of Mathematics, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi 621, Taiwan
DOI: 10.1080/14697680500151392
Publication Frequency: 8 issues per year
Published in: journal Quantitative Finance, Volume 5, Issue 4 August 2005 , pages 329 - 342
Number of References: 20
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Abstract

In this paper we investigate the possible values of basket options. Instead of postulating a model and pricing the basket option using that model, we consider the set of all models which are consistent with the observed prices of vanilla options, and, within this class, find the model for which the price of the basket option is largest. This price is an upper bound on the prices of the basket option which are consistent with no-arbitrage. In the absence of additional assumptions it is the lowest upper bound on the price of the basket option. Associated with the bound is a simple super-replicating strategy involving trading in the individual calls.
Keywords: Basket options; Super-replication; Arbitrage-free bounds
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