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48 results for American option

Study on pricing American Exchange options using Lévy processes.

problem Pricing American Exchange options driven by Lévy processes.
method Represented American Exchange options as European options plus early exercise premium; studied properties of free boundary and provided an approximative formula.
result Developed an approximative formula for American Exchange options.

The paper values perpetual callable American volatility options using a mean-reverting volatility model.

problem Valuation of callable American volatility put options.
method Modeling volatility dynamics as a mean-reverting 3/2 process and proposing a pricing formula.
result The value of perpetual callable American volatility put options is discussed under given conditions.

We call a given American option representable if there exists a European claim which dominates the American payoff at any time and such that the values of the two options coincide in the continuation region of the American option. This concept has interesting implications from a probabilistic, analytic, financial, and …

2020-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Study bounds for prices of European and American options with optional termination.

problem Bounding prices of options with potential termination.
method Duality results linking upper prices of vulnerable options to American options with constrained exercise times.
result Linking upper prices of vulnerable options to American options and game options.

Since most of the traded options on individual stocks is of American type it is of interest to generalize the results obtained in semi-static trading to the case when one is allowed to statically trade American options. However, this problem has proved to be elusive so far because of the asymmetric nature of the positi…

2016-05-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper develops semi-analytic method for American options in time-dependent jump-diffusion models.

problem Pricing American options in models with time-dependent and exponential jumps.
method Generalizes existing methods for barrier and American options to handle arbitrary time dependencies and solves the problem through algebraic and Fredholm-Volterra equations.
result Presents a semi-analytic solution for American options in time-dependent jump-diffusion models with exponential jumps.

In this paper, we price American-style Parisian down-and-in call options under the Black-Scholes framework. Usually, pricing an American-style option is much more difficult than pricing its European-style counterpart because of the appearance of the optimal exercise boundary in the former. Fortunately, the optimal exer…

2015-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

We price and hedge American options robustly in continuous time.

problem Pricing and hedging American options in continuous time with model uncertainty.
method Assumes continuous semimartingale asset prices and closed convex constraints on volatility. Proves robust pricing-hedging duality and identifies American options as European options on an enlarged space.
result We prove robust pricing-hedging duality and show it holds against richer models with dynamic trading of European options.

Paper applies subdiffusive dynamics to American and barrier options pricing.

problem Valuation of American and barrier options in subdiffusive financial models.
method Proposes weighted finite difference and Longstaff-Schwartz methods for valuation.
result Numerical valuation of American and barrier options demonstrated.

Study values American passport options in an exponential Lévy model.

problem Valuing an exotic derivative called the American passport option.
method Derived pricing equation using dynamic programming principle and proved viscosity solution.
result Option value is a viscosity solution of variational inequality and is convex.

This paper uses deep learning to price American options under stochastic volatility.

problem Pricing American options with a time-varying exercise boundary under the Heston model.
method Coupled PINNs with curriculum learning and adaptive resampling.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed deep learning framework for American option pricing.

Our goal here is to discuss the pricing problem of European and American options in discrete time using elementary calculus so as to be an easy reference for first year undergraduate students. Using the binomial model we compute the fair price of European and American options. We explain the notion of Arbitrage and the…

2015-10-20abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper develops methods for pricing American Parisian options under general Markov models.

problem Pricing American Parisian options with various types and payoff functions.
method General approaches using CTMC approximation for time-inhomogeneous Markov models, including state augmentation and variational inequalities.
result Efficient algorithms for pricing American Parisian options confirmed with numerical experiments.

Paper proposes an alternative method to price American options using HJM approach.

problem Price American options efficiently and accurately.
method Utilizes HJM technique to model term structure of volatility for equity markets.
result Proposes a new value function, stopping criteria, and stopping time for American options.

The purpose of this note is to reconcile two different results concerning the model-free upper bound on the price of an American option, given a set of European option prices. Neuberger (2007, `Bounds on the American option') and Hobson and Neuberger (2016, `On the value of being American') argue that the cost of the c…

2016-04-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Researchers find a way to price American options without relying on specific asset price models.

problem Determining the upper bound on the price of American options under model uncertainty.
method Using martingale optimal transport problem to describe model uncertainty and proving that optimal exercise schemes must be nonrandomized under certain conditions.
result The price upper bound and its relaxed version coincide under suitable convexity conditions, removing the need for the model-free price upper bound to be nonrandomized.

Paper examines floating exercise boundaries for American options in time-inhomogeneous models.

problem Floating exercise boundaries in time-inhomogeneous models with negative interest rates or yields.
method Semi-analytical approach for pricing American options.
result Specialized pricing methodologies are required for models with floating exercise boundaries.

The virtue of an American option is that it can be exercised at any time. This right is particularly valuable when there is model uncertainty. Yet almost all the extensive literature on American options assumes away model uncertainty. This paper quantifies the potential value of this flexibility by identifying the supr…

2016-04-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the pricing of American put options in a model-independent setting: that is, we do not assume that asset prices behave according to a given model, but aim to draw conclusions that hold in any model. We incorporate market information by supposing that the prices of European options are known. In this setting…

2013-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

An analytic method for pricing American call options is provided; followed by an empirical method for pricing Asian call options. The methodology is the pricing theory presented in "A Modern Theory of Random Variation", by Patrick Muldowney, 2012.

2015-07-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Two neural network methods solve American-style option pricing and hedging.

problem Solving American-style option pricing and hedging problems efficiently.
method Two novel neural network methods: one series of networks and one global network.
result Simultaneous computation of upper and lower bounds with reduced complexity.

ANNs solve financial option valuation problems without numerical methods.

problem Valuation of European and American financial options.
method Unsupervised learning with artificial neural networks (ANNs) for solving PDEs.
result ANNs accurately compute option values for various stock scenarios.

Efficiently prices American options with multiple assets using sparse grids.

problem Pricing American options with multiple underlying assets efficiently.
method Dynamic programming formulation followed by sparse grid interpolation.
result Sparse grids reduce the number of interpolation points and maintain function smoothness.

Study efficient numerical methods for American basket options.

problem Valuation of American basket options.
method Partial differential complementarity problems (PDCPs) and efficient discretization.
result Approximations of American basket options are close and converge favourably.