Article ID: | iaor20073321 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 151 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 81 |
End Page Number: | 98 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2007 |
Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
Authors: | Henderson Vicky, Hobson David, Shaw William, Wojakowski Rafal |
Keywords: | financial, investment |
This paper studies symmetries between fixed and floating-strike Asian options and exploits this symmetry to derive an upper bound for the price of a floating-strike Asian. This bound only involves fixed-strike Asians and vanillas, and can be computed simply given one of the many efficient methods for pricing fixed-strike Asian options. The bound coincides with the true price until after the averaging has begun and again at maturity. The bound is compared to benchmark prices obtained via Monte Carlo simulation in numerical examples.