Abstract
We propose a new method for evaluating fixed strike Asian options using moments. In particular we show that the density of the logarithm of the arithmetic average is uniquely determined from its moments. Resorting to the maximum entropy density, we show that the first four moments are sufficient to recover with great accuracy the true density of the average. Then the Asian option price is estimated with high accuracy. We compare the proposed method with others based on the computation of moments.
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