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Pricing futures on geometric indexes: A discrete time approach

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  • Arie Harel
  • Giora Harpaz
  • Jack Francis

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Several futures contracts are written against an underlying asset that is a geometric, rather than arithmetic, index. These contracts include: the US Dollar Index futures, the CRB-17 futures, and the Value Line geometric index futures. Due to the geometric averaging, the standard cost-of-carry futures pricing formula is improper for pricing these futures contracts. We assume that asset prices are lognormally distributed, and capital markets are complete. Using the concepts of equivalent martingale measure and the risk-neutral valuation relationships in conjunction with discrete time methodology, we derive closed-form pricing formulas for these contracts. Our pricing formulas are consistent with the ones obtained via a continuous time paradigm. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007

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  • Arie Harel & Giora Harpaz & Jack Francis, 2007. "Pricing futures on geometric indexes: A discrete time approach," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 28(3), pages 227-240, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:rqfnac:v:28:y:2007:i:3:p:227-240
    DOI: 10.1007/s11156-006-0015-6
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