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Australian Asian options

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  • Manuel Moreno
  • Javier F. Navas

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We study European options on the ratio of the stock price to its average and viceversa. Some of these options are traded in the Australian Stock Exchange since 1992, thus we call them Australian Asian options. For geometric averages, we obtain closed-form expressions for option prices. For arithmetic means, we use dierent approximations that produce very similar results.

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  • Manuel Moreno & Javier F. Navas, 2003. "Australian Asian options," Economics Working Papers 680, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
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    Keywords

    Asian options; arithmetic average; geometric average; edgeworth expansion; lognormal distribution; gamma distribution;
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    • G13 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing
    • C15 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Statistical Simulation Methods: General

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