Heterogeneous Basket Options Pricing Using Analytical Approximations

39 Pages Posted: 25 Jun 2015

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Georges Dionne

HEC Montreal - Department of Finance

Geneviève Gauthier

Department of decision Sciences and GERAD; affiliation not provided to SSRN

Nadia Ouertani

IESEG School of Management; HEC Montréal

Nabil Tahani

York University - Atkinson School of Administrative Studies

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Date Written: June 25, 2015

Abstract

This paper proposes the use of analytical approximations to price an heterogeneous basket option combining commodity prices, foreign currencies and zero-coupon bonds. The performance of three moment matching approximations is examined: inverse gamma, Edgeworth expansion around the lognormal and Johnson family distributions. Since there is no closed-form formula for basket options, Monte Carlo simulations are carried out to generate the benchmark values. A simulation experiment on a set of options based on a random choice of parameters is performed. The results show that the Edgeworth-lognormal and Johnson distributions give the most accurate results.

Keywords: Basket Options; Options Pricing; Analytical Approximations; Monte Carlo Simulation

JEL Classification: C15, C63, F31, G13

Suggested Citation

Dionne, Georges and Gauthier, Genevieve and Ouertani, Nadia and Tahani, Nabil, Heterogeneous Basket Options Pricing Using Analytical Approximations (June 25, 2015). Multinational Finance Journal, Vol. 15, No. 1/2, p. 47-85, 2011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2622950

Georges Dionne (Contact Author)

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Genevieve Gauthier

Department of decision Sciences and GERAD ( email )

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Nadia Ouertani

IESEG School of Management ( email )

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Nabil Tahani

York University - Atkinson School of Administrative Studies ( email )

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Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
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