A Technical Note, Looback Options: a comparison between Monte Carlo Techniques

Looback options are path dependent contingent claims whose payoffs depend on the extrema of the underlying asset price over a certain time interval. In this note we compare the performance of two Monte Carlo techniques to price lookback options, a crude Monte Carlo estimator and Antithetic variate e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marcelo González A., Antonio Parisi F., Arturo Rodríguez P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Chile 2007-02-01
Series:Estudios de Administración
Online Access:https://estudiosdeadministracion.uchile.cl/index.php/EDA/article/view/56445