The Istanbul option: Where the standard
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Michel Jacques
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Article
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1997
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We introduce a new type of option, similar to Asian options but where the averaging period is random: the average begins when the underlying price hits a barrier. We give a closed-form formula for the call price, based on approximation formulae for Asian options, in the case of a continuous average