Abstract
Financial products which depend on hitting times for two underlying assets have become very popular in the last decade. Three common examples are double-digital barrier options, two-asset barrier spread options and double lookback options. Analytical expressions for the joint distribution of the endpoints and the maximum and/or minimum values of two assets are essential in order to obtain quasi-closed form solutions for the price of these derivatives. Earlier authors derived quasi-closed form pricing expressions in the context of constant volatility and correlation. More recently solutions were provided in the presence of a common stochastic volatility factor but with restricted correlations due to the use of a method of images. In this article, we generalize this finding by allowing any value for the correlation. In this context, we derive closed-form expressions for some two-asset barrier options.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 520-546 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| Journal | Applied Mathematical Finance |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2 Nov 2017 |
Keywords
- Stochastic volatility
- two-asset barrier options
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