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Valuing high-dimensional options has many important applications in finance but when the true distributions are unknown or complex, numerical approximations must be used. Approximation methods based on Monte-Carlo simulation show a steep trade-off between estimation accuracy and computational efficiency. This article presents an alternative semi-analytic approximation method for pricing options on the maximum or minimum of multiple assets with unknown distributions. Computational efficiency is shown to improve significantly without sacrificing estimation accuracy. The method is illustrated with applications to options on underlying assets with mean-reverting prices, time-dependent correlations, and stochastic volatility
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The authors would like to thank the two anonymous referees, the associate editor, and Dr. Jess H. Chua at the University of Calgary for valuable comments and insights on this research. This research was partly supported by NUS grant R-146-000-059-112
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Li, X., Wu, Z. A semi-analytic method for valuing high-dimensional options on the maximum and minimum of multiple assets. Annals of Finance 2, 179–205 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10436-005-0034-7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10436-005-0034-7