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Pricing first-touch digitals with a multi-step double boundary and American barrier options

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  • Lee, Hangsuck
  • Ha, Hongjun
  • Kong, Byungdoo

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A first-touch digital option delivers a payoff when an underlying variable first touches a given boundary, and most studies discuss its pricing by assuming a single flat boundary and a fixed payout amount. This paper derives explicit pricing formulas for first-touch digital options with a multi-step double boundary and customizable payoffs. To this end, we establish the probabilities of the first-hitting times of a Brownian motion for the multi-step double boundary. Furthermore, we explain how the first-touch digital option pricing formulas approximate an American knock-out multi-step barrier option.

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  • Lee, Hangsuck & Ha, Hongjun & Kong, Byungdoo, 2024. "Pricing first-touch digitals with a multi-step double boundary and American barrier options," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 59(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:finlet:v:59:y:2024:i:c:s1544612323010711
    DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2023.104699
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    Keywords

    First-hitting time; Multi-step double boundary; Digital option; American barrier option;
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    JEL classification:

    • G13 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing
    • G22 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies

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