This paper aims to use Monte Carlo methods to price American call options on equities using the variance reduction technique of control variates and to price American put options using the binomial model. We use this information to form option positions. This project was done a part of the masters capstone course Math 573: Computational Methods of Financial Mathematics.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:wpi.edu/oai:digitalcommons.wpi.edu:etd-theses-1379 |
| Date | 27 April 2011 |
| Creators | Lu, Mengliu |
| Contributors | Marcel Y. Blais, Advisor, , |
| Publisher | Digital WPI |
| Source Sets | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Masters Theses (All Theses, All Years) |
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