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by edoardobarra
May 20th, 2004, 8:25 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Asian Options
Replies: 6
Views: 191334

Asian Options

try here...http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~vecer/You may find some useful papers...
by edoardobarra
January 29th, 2004, 9:44 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Garman Kohlhagen on Excel ...
Replies: 2
Views: 191407

Garman Kohlhagen on Excel ...

Try Here...... hope it Helps.www.quantnotes.com/usefullinks/software.htmEdo.
by edoardobarra
January 19th, 2004, 1:32 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Exotic options information
Replies: 3
Views: 190111

Exotic options information

I wrote my thesis on Asian Options, (in Italian) Anyway, here it is!Hope it helps.e.
by edoardobarra
October 8th, 2003, 1:24 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Any approximations for Average Strike Asian Options?
Replies: 8
Views: 190176

Any approximations for Average Strike Asian Options?

As said in my prevoius post, Jan Vecer's paper "Unified Pricing fon Asian Options" 2002deals with both discrete and continue averaging for average strike and average rate options.unfortunately is a pde method...but it works!cordialmente,edoardobarra
by edoardobarra
October 3rd, 2003, 5:50 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Any approximations for Average Strike Asian Options?
Replies: 8
Views: 190176

Any approximations for Average Strike Asian Options?

<r> You are talking about approximations to price them ?have a look to vecer's paper about asian option pricing, it talks about both average rate and average strike asians.<URL url="http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~vecer/hope">http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~vecer/hope</URL> it helps,cordialmente edoardo...
by edoardobarra
September 18th, 2003, 12:38 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: asian option pricing
Replies: 23
Views: 193403

asian option pricing

<t>bartoliniI'm doing some MC simuation both in a continue and discrete averaging framework...prices are very different, of course... i.m.h.o. I think the price of an analytical model (where averaging is continuous, i.e. is an Integration) is quite different from the real price with 12 averaging a y...
by edoardobarra
September 10th, 2003, 11:32 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: asian option pricing
Replies: 23
Views: 193403

asian option pricing

<t>something really new in asian option pricing could be:Linetsky 2001 - "exact pricing of asian options..."Zhang 2002 - "pricing continously sampled asian..."Dufresne 1999 - "laguerre series for asian and other options"Lewis 2002 - "asian connections"- the last one is just like linetsky but much si...
by edoardobarra
August 7th, 2003, 1:54 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Drift Vs Risk free: which one ?
Replies: 15
Views: 190762

Drift Vs Risk free: which one ?

<t>of course you can use mu = r, and you'll get the same option price using the B&S formula...but things will be different princing a path-dependent option with Monte Carlo Simulation and using mu = r.the point is:if I'm just interestet in the asset path I must use muif I want an asset path to p...
by edoardobarra
August 7th, 2003, 12:43 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Drift Vs Risk free: which one ?
Replies: 15
Views: 190762

Drift Vs Risk free: which one ?

<t>Hi everybody!Performing some MC simulations for Asset Paths and Asian Options pricing I noticed something pretty strange..according to Paul Wilmott Introduces QF, chap. 8.4 B&S equation In the Black & Sholes equation (risk neutral) applying Ito's lemma to asset paths and then to option pr...
by edoardobarra
August 7th, 2003, 12:08 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Price path generator - Matlab
Replies: 4
Views: 190599

Price path generator - Matlab

Try this :www.polito.it/~brandimarteand download the zip archive with lot of matlab code, that could be useful...of course you may also take a look to the book.(hope this helps)edoardo
by edoardobarra
July 4th, 2003, 7:37 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Zhang Analitical Asian Options
Replies: 3
Views: 190167

Zhang Analitical Asian Options

Thank you!Doing it numerically let me discover where exactly the problem was...and now I'm searching specific help in Mathematica forum.I'll take my time debugging.Thanks.Edoardo Barra
by edoardobarra
July 3rd, 2003, 11:41 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Zhang Analitical Asian Options
Replies: 3
Views: 190167

Zhang Analitical Asian Options

<t>I've been working on this problem a little bit and I discovered that the error is in the way on wich Mathematica perform symbolic integration.... so the new question is:Does anybody know something about integrals in Mathematica (Assumptions , Simplify, ...), and moreover something about avoiding ...
by edoardobarra
July 2nd, 2003, 12:19 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Zhang Analitical Asian Options
Replies: 3
Views: 190167

Zhang Analitical Asian Options

<t>I'm trying to use Zhang's Analytical model for Asian Option pricing (2002) but there are some problems I can't get out of...The main problem arise calculating the second order approximation function (f2 in the model).Coefficient a20 in this function seems to be bigger than expectet and I don't kn...