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In this paper we derive Fourier transforms for double-sided Parisian option contracts. The double-sided Parisian option contract is triggered by the stock price process spending some time above an upper level or below some lower level. The double-sided Parisian knock-in call contract is the general type of Parisian contract from which also the single-sided contract types follow. The paper gives an overview of the different types of contracts that can be derived from the double-sided Parisian knock-in calls, and, after discussing the Fourier inversion, it concludes with various numerical examples, explaining the, sometimes peculiar, behavior of the Parisian option.
The paper also yields a nice result on standard Brownian motion. The Fourier transform for the double-sided Parisian option is derived from the Laplace transform of the double-sided Parisian stopping time. The probability that a standard Brownian motion makes an excursion of a given length above zero before it makes an excursion of another length below zero follows from this Laplace transform and is not very well known in the literature. In order to arrive at the Laplace transform, a very careful application of the strong Markov property is needed, together with a non-intuitive lemma that gives a bound on the value of Brownian motion in the excursion.
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Anderluh, J.H.M., van der Weide, J.A.M. Double-sided Parisian option pricing. Finance Stoch 13, 205–238 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00780-009-0090-3
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