Average-rate options, commonly known as Asian options, are contingent claims whose payoffs depend on the arithmetic average of some underlying index over a fixed time horizon. This paper proposes a new valuation technique, called the variable reduction technique, for average rate options. This...

We develop a multi-period model of stock trading in which investors receive differential information concerning the underlying value of the stock. Investors trade competitively in the market based on their own private information and the information revealed by the market clearing prices as well...