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The Pricing of Power Options under the Generalized Black-Scholes Model

A closed-form pricing formula of European options is obtained by Fischer Black and Myron Scholes (1973). In such a European option, the payoff depends `linearly' on the underlying asset price at the expiration time. An
power option has a payoff which depends nonlinearly on the underlying asset price at the expiration time by raising a certain exponent. In the Black-Scholes model, a closed-form formula of a power option is obtained by Esser (2004). This paper extends Esser's result to the generalized Black-
Scholes model. That is, we derive a closed-form pricing formula of a power option in the case when both the interest rate and the stock volatility are time-dependent.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0808111-161815
Date08 August 2011
CreatorsWu, Yi-Yun
ContributorsHong-Kun Xu, Yen-Cherng Lin, Jen-Chih Yao, Lai-Jiu Lin
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0808111-161815
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