Integral price formulas for lookback options

We derive an integral representation of the price formulas for European options whose terminal payoff involves path-dependent lookback variable. The intricacies in the derivation procedures using the partial differential equation techniques stem from the degenerate nature of the pricing models, wher...

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Main Authors: Chenglong Xu, Yue Kuen Kwok
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2005-01-01
Series:Journal of Applied Mathematics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/JAM.2005.117
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Summary:We derive an integral representation of the price formulas for European options whose terminal payoff involves path-dependent lookback variable. The intricacies in the derivation procedures using the partial differential equation techniques stem from the degenerate nature of the pricing models, where the lookback state variables appear only in the auxiliary conditions but not in the governing differential equations. We also derive a parity relation between the price functions of the floating strike and fixed strike lookback options.
ISSN:1110-757X
1687-0042