Path-dependent game options: a lookback case

Peidong Guo, Qihong Chen, Xicai Guo and Yue Fang ()

Review of Derivatives Research, 2014, vol. 17, issue 1, 113-124

Abstract: The game option, which is also known as Israel option, is an American option with callable features. The option holder can exercise the option at any time up to maturity. This article studies the pricing behaviors of the path-dependent game option where the payoff of the option depends on the maximum or minimum asset price over the life of the option (i.e., the game option with the lookback feature). We obtain the explicit pricing formula for the perpetual case and provide the integral expression of pricing formula under the finite horizon case. In addition, we derive optimal exercise strategies and continuation regions of options in both floating and fixed strike cases. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

Keywords: American options; Lookback game options; Callable feature; Path dependent; G13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/s11147-013-9092-6

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