Harutyunyan, SurenMasip Borràs, Adrià2018-12-072018-12-072017http://hdl.handle.net/10230/36014Treball de Fi de Grau en Economia. Curs 2016-2017Tutora: Elisa Alòs AlcaldeIn this paper we study recent developments in the approximation of the spread option pricing. As the Kirk’s Approximation is extremely flawed in the cases when the correlation is very high, we explore a recent development that allows approximating with simplicity and accuracy the option price. To assess the goodness of fit of the new method, we increase dramatically the number of simulations and scenarios to test the new method and compare it with the original Kirk’s formula. The simulations confirmed that the Modified Kirk’s Approximation method is extremely accurate, improving Kirk’s approach for two-asset spread options.application/pdfengAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 EspañaTreball de fi de grau – Curs 2016-2017PreusSpread optionsSpark spread optionsKirk's formulaA numerical analysis of the modified Kirk's formula and applications to spread option pricing approximationsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess