A novel higher-order efficient computational method for pricing European and Asian options

Abstract

In this article, we present a fourth-order accurate numerical method for solving generalized Black-Scholes PDE describing European and Asian options. Initially, we discretize the time derivative by the Crank-Nicolson scheme, and then the resultant semi-discrete problem by the central difference scheme on uniform meshes. In order to enhance the order of convergence of the proposed scheme, we employ the Richardson extrapolation method, by using two different meshes to solve the fully discrete problem. The stability and convergence are studied. To validate the proposed technique, several numerical experiments are carried out.