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AmericanCallOpt (version 0.95)

This package includes pricing function for selected American call options with underlying assets that generate payouts.

Description

This package includes a set of pricing functions for American call options. The following cases are covered: Pricing of an American call using the standard binomial approximation; Hedge parameters for an American call with a standard binomial tree; Binomial pricing of an American call with continuous payout from the underlying asset; Binomial pricing of an American call with an underlying stock that pays proportional dividends in discrete time; Pricing of an American call on futures using a binomial approximation; Pricing of a currency futures American call using a binomial approximation; Pricing of a perpetual American call. The user should kindly notice that this material is for educational purposes only. The codes are not optimized for computational efficiency as they are meant to represent standard cases of analytical and numerical solution.

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install.packages('AmericanCallOpt')

Monthly Downloads

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Version

0.95

License

GPL-3

Maintainer

Paolo Zagaglia

Last Published

March 4th, 2012

Functions in AmericanCallOpt (0.95)

am_call_partials

Hedge parameters of a standard American call option using a binomial tree
am_call_perpetual

Analytical pricing of an American perpetual call
AmericanCallOpt-package

Pricing of selected American call options with payoff from the underlying asset
am_call_bin

Binomial pricing of a standard American call
am_call_bin_futures

Binomial pricing of a futures American call
am_call_bin_contpay

Binomial option price with continuous payout from the underlying asset
am_call_bin_currency

Binomial pricing of an American call on currency futures
am_call_bin_propdiv

Binomial price of an American call with an underlying stock that pays proportional dividends