We study sovereign default risk as measured by credit default swap (CDS) spreads of Eurozone member states between 2008 and 2016. Applying a structural credit risk model we analyze to what extent contingent claims analysis can explain spreads given fundamental balance sheet information. First...

This paper introduces a novel method to price arithmetic Asian options in Levy-driven models, with discrete and continuous averaging, by expanding on the approach of sequential characteristic function recovery. By utilizing frame duality and a FFT-based implementation of density projection, we...

In this paper, we develop a Markov chain-based approximation method to price arithmetic Asian options for short maturities under the case of geometric Brownian motion. It has the advantage of being a closed-form approximation involving only matrices. It is an accurate, efficient, and stable...

We describe a modified binomial method that provides a simple and unified framework for the valuation of various kinds of Asian options (American or European, arithmetic or geometric, fixed or floating strike, discrete or continuous sampling and dividends, partial Asians). The Greeks can also be...

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...

The contracts written on the harmonic average of the underlying price are quite popular in the foreign exchange market. If X denotes the foreign currency and Y denotes the domestic currency, the payoff of the contract is a function of a price of an asset H which is defined asH(T) =...

Asian options are options based on some average of the underlying asset price. Generally, an Asian option is an option whose payoff depends on the average price of the underlying asset during a pre-specified period within the option's lifetime, and a pre-specified observation frequency. We...

This study provides a generalized framework under which all types of Asian options can be priced, fixed and floating strike, forward-starting and in-progress. We not only extend the previous studies to our framework, but propose a new and theoretically supported closed-form approximation for the...