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Asian option as a fixed-point. (English) Zbl 1403.91349

Summary: We characterize the price of an Asian option, a financial contract, as a fixed-point of a nonlinear operator. In recent years, there has been interest in incorporating changes of regime into the parameters describing the evolution of the underlying asset price, namely the interest rate and the volatility, to model sudden exogenous events in the economy. Asian options are particularly interesting because the payoff depends on the integrated asset price. We study the case of both floating- and fixed-strike Asian call options with arithmetic averaging when the asset follows a regime-switching geometric Brownian motion with coefficients that depend on a Markov chain. The typical approach to finding the value of a financial option is to solve an associated system of coupled partial differential equations. Alternatively, we propose an iterative procedure that converges to the value of this contract with geometric rate using a classical fixed-point theorem.

MSC:

91G20 Derivative securities (option pricing, hedging, etc.)
47H10 Fixed-point theorems
60J20 Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.)
60J70 Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.)

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