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This chapter introduces the use of a time-homogenous Markov chain for the valuation of options. In the computational finance literature, three categories of numerical techniques have been explored extensively for the valuation of contingent claims. The first category involves the use of a lattice structure to approximate the price movement of the underlying asset under the risk neutral probability measure and then computes the price of a contingent claim as a discounted expected payoff. The lattice approach essentially discretizes both time and state in a particular way. The second category is the finite difference/element approach. This technique numerically solves the partial differential equation that the value function of a contingent claim must obey under the no-arbitrage condition. The third category is the Monte Carlo method, which simulates the system under the risk-neutral probability measure so that the expectation of a contingent payoff can be approximated by the sample average.
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Duan, JC., Gauthier, G., Simonato, JG. (2003). A Markov Chain Method for Pricing Contingent Claims. In: Stochastic Modeling and Optimization. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21757-4_11
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