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Efficient tree methods for pricing digital barrier options

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  • Elisa Appolloni
  • Andrea Ligori

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We propose an efficient lattice procedure which permits to obtain European and American option prices under the Black and Scholes model for digital options with barrier features. Numerical results show the accuracy of the proposed method.

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  • Elisa Appolloni & Andrea Ligori, 2014. "Efficient tree methods for pricing digital barrier options," Papers 1401.2900, arXiv.org, revised Jan 2014.
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