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The purpose of this article is to value some life insurance contracts in a stochastic interest rate environment taking into account the default risk of the underlying insurance company. The participating life insurance contracts considered here can be expressed as portfolios of barrier options...
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An exchange option, also called “Margrabe option”, gives the right, but not the obligation to exchange an asset for another asset. In a recent paper in the Encyclopedia of Quantitative Finance (2010), Professor Rolf Poulsen writes that “[t]he Margrabe formula is still valid with stochastic...
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Reformulating the results of del Baño Rollin, Ferreiro-Castilla, and Utzet (2010), we are able to give necessary and sufficient conditions for the moments of the stock price to exist and extend Theorem 2.1 of Forde and Jacquier (2011). Precisely Forde and Jacquier (2011) provide necessary...
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There is considerable interest in finding numerical methods to price Asian options. Tse and Mok (2009) have proposed a new very simple closed-form expression for the price of a fixed-strike Asian option. Unfortunately their formula is not correct. This note shows that it is incorrect and...
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In stochastic volatility models based on time-homogeneous diff usions, we provide a simple necessary and suffi cient condition for the discretely sampled fair strike of a variance swap to converge to the continuously sampled fair strike. It extends Theorem 3.8 of Jarrow, Kchia, Larsson and...
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Tankov (2011) improves the Fréchet bounds for a bivariate copula when its values on a compact subset of the unit square are given. He shows that the best possible bounds are quasi-copulas and gives a sufficient condition for these bounds to be copulas. In this note we give weaker sufficient...
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