An Alternating-Direction Implicit Difference Scheme for Pricing Asian Options

We propose a fast and stable numerical method to evaluate two-dimensional partial differential equation (PDE) for pricing arithmetic average Asian options. The numerical method is deduced by combining an alternating-direction technique and the central difference scheme on a piecewise uniform mesh. T...

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Main Authors: Zhongdi Cen, Anbo Le, Aimin Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-01-01
Series:Journal of Applied Mathematics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/605943
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Summary:We propose a fast and stable numerical method to evaluate two-dimensional partial differential equation (PDE) for pricing arithmetic average Asian options. The numerical method is deduced by combining an alternating-direction technique and the central difference scheme on a piecewise uniform mesh. The numerical scheme is stable in the maximum norm, which is true for arbitrary volatility and arbitrary interest rate. It is proved that the scheme is second-order convergent with respect to the asset price. Numerical results support the theoretical results.
ISSN:1110-757X
1687-0042