Applications of the Laplace-Carson Transform to Option Pricing: A Tutorial ∗
Applications of the Laplace-Carson Transform to Option Pricing: A Tutorial ∗
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拉普拉斯-卡森变换在期权定价中的应用:教程*
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2016
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Toshikazu Kimura
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作者:
Toshikazu Kimura
We provide a brief tutorial how to apply the Laplace-Carson transform (LCT) to option pricing. The LCT is a variant of the Laplace transform (LT), and it is named after John Renshaw Carson (1886–1940), a telecommunication engineer at ATT see Carr [7]. Carr’s procedure is referred to as the randomization approach, which is a special case in the general framework of randomization of Feller [14, Chapter II]. From the view point of a tutorial, we particularly emphasize the importance of an elementary European vanilla option in pricing more complex options. This tutorial is organized as follows: In Section 2, we define the LCT formally and summarize its basic properties. In Section 3, we introduce a basic stochastic framework of the underlying asset process. In Section 4, the main section of this tutorial, we describe the LCT approach, starting from European vanilla options and going to American vanilla options, exchange options, Russian options, and continuous-installment options. Further extensions to barrier options (Avram et al. [5], Petrella and Kou [38]), lookback options (Kimura [26]), Asian options (Geman and Yor [17]) and other derivatives (Hayashi et al. [19]) are possible, but they are omitted due to the page restriction. Finally, in Section 5, we give issues on deck for the LCT approach to option pricing.