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The Hartman-Watson Distribution Revisited: Asymptotics for Pricing Asian Options

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Stefan Gerhold*
Affiliation:
Vienna University of Technology
*
Postal address: Vienna University of Technology, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10, A-1040 Vienna, Austria. Email address: sgerhold@fam.tuwien.ac.at
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Abstract

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Barrieu, Rouault and Yor (2004) determined asymptotics for the logarithm of the distribution function of the Hartman-Watson distribution. We determine the asymptotics of the density. This refinement can be applied to the pricing of Asian options in the Black-Scholes model.

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Short Communications
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 2011 

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