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Pricing Parisian options using Laplace transforms

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  • Céline Labart

    (MATHFI - Financial mathematics - Inria Paris-Rocquencourt - Inria - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12, CMAP - Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées de l'Ecole polytechnique - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Jérôme Lelong

    (MATHFI - Financial mathematics - Inria Paris-Rocquencourt - Inria - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12, CERMICS - Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Mathématiques et Calcul Scientifique - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech)

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In this work, we propose to price Parisian options using Laplace transforms. Not only do we compute the Laplace transforms of all the different Parisian options, but we also explain how to invert them numerically. We prove the accuracy of the numerical inversion.

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  • Céline Labart & Jérôme Lelong, 2009. "Pricing Parisian options using Laplace transforms," Post-Print hal-00776703, HAL.
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