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No 2015:3 Closed Form Valuation of Three-Asset Spread Options With a view towards Clean Dark Spreads

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  • Green, Rikard

    (Knut Wicksell Centre for Financial Studies, Lund University)

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We perform a slight generalization of the Bjerksund and Stensland (2011) spread option valuation formula to cover three-asset spread options. We investigate the pricing performance of the model against the corresponding version of the Kirk formula and the true price calculated with Monte Carlo methods. The numerical setting of the evaluation is designed to mimic a real market situation in the German OTC market for clean dark spread options. The results show that both models give similar and accurate price estimates (compared to the true option price). Comparing the performance between the models we conclude that the three-asset Bjerksund-Stensland formula performs marginally better compared to the three-asset Kirk formula (counting the number of test cases with the lowest absolute pricing error against the true option price).

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  • Green, Rikard, 2015. "No 2015:3 Closed Form Valuation of Three-Asset Spread Options With a view towards Clean Dark Spreads," Knut Wicksell Working Paper Series 2015/3, Lund University, Knut Wicksell Centre for Financial Studies.
    • Handle: RePEc:hhs:luwick:2015_003
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    Keywords

    Clean dark spreads; Energy markets; Financial derivatives; Spread options;
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    JEL classification:

    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • G13 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing

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