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In this paper, to value the continuous-installment options under the proposed model with a numerical approach, we first express the truncated CPDE as a linear complementarity problem (LCP), and then a finite element method is applied to solve the resulting variational inequality. We studied the existence and uniqueness of the solution and analyzed the stability of the proposed method under some appropriate assumptions, then we illustrated the error estimates on the appropriate spaces. 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