The study values a new type of insurance-linked security called CocoCat bonds.
problem Valuing a new type of insurance-linked security called contingent convertible catastrophe bonds.
method Formalized design, derived analytical valuation formulae, used time-inhomogeneous compound Poisson process for natural catastrophe losses, and applied exponential change of measure and Girsanov-like transformation.
result CocoCat bond prices are most sensitive to interest rates, conversion fractions, and trigger levels.
Maximizes American put price bounds using European put prices.
problem Finding upper bounds for American put prices.
method Model-free approach using European put prices and martingale transport.
result Derives a model with maximal American put price.
Derives a dual equation for various option types, leading to new pricing and hedging insights.
problem Pricing and hedging of various option types.
method Derives a dual equation with the same form as the Black-Scholes-Merton equation, applicable to homogeneous degree one payoffs.
result Provides simple analytic formulas for delta and gamma, and reveals put-call equality for various options.
Closed-form solution found for American put option boundary.
problem Finding the optimal exercise boundary for American put options.
method Three models of stock price dynamics with time-dependent parameters, leading to a closed-form solution for the exercise boundary.
result Explicit closed-form solution for the optimal exercise boundary of American put 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.
In this paper, we investigate the generalization of the Call-Put duality equality obtained in [1] for perpetual American options when the Call-Put payoff (y−x)+ is replaced by φ(x,y). It turns out that the duality still holds under monotonicity and concavity assumptions on φ. The specific analytical form of the …
Improved binomial model for American put prices with error analysis.
problem Improving the accuracy of American put price approximations.
method Binomial approximation in the Black-Scholes model with consideration of continuous dividend yield.
result Error in approximation is O((lnn)α/n), where α depends on interest rate and dividend yield. Optimal exercise boundary for put options with delivery lags identified.
problem Analyzing the optimal exercise time for American put options with delivery lags.
method Decomposing the option into a European put and a new American-style derivative, using free boundary techniques.
result The optimal exercise boundary exists and is a strictly increasing and smooth curve.
It is well known that in models with time-homogeneous local volatility functions and constant interest and dividend rates, the European Put prices are transformed into European Call prices by the simultaneous exchanges of the interest and dividend rates and of the strike and spot price of the underlying. This paper inv…
We construct algorithms via binomial approximations for computation of prices of game put options and obtain estimates of approximation errors.
This paper compares LSM and ANN/GBM for pricing American put options under a complex model.
problem Pricing American put options using advanced techniques.
method Least-Squares Monte Carlo (LSM) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Gradient Boosted Machine (GBM) Trees.
result LSM outperforms ANN and GBM in pricing American put options.
This paper presents an algorithm for pricing perpetual American put options with asset-dependent discounting.
problem Pricing perpetual American put options with asset-dependent discounting.
method The approach involves a value function described by a stochastic process with negative exponential jumps and a discount function that depends on the asset price.
result Under certain conditions, the value function can be convex and represented in a closed form.
The paper shows that benchmark-neutral pricing minimizes option prices.
problem Pricing extreme-maturity European put options on diversified indices.
method Benchmark-neutral pricing applied to a drifted time-transformed squared Bessel process.
result Benchmark-neutral price is the minimal possible price, risk-neutral price is more expensive.
We derive explicit formulas for time decay, for the European call and put options at expiry, and use them to calculate analytical approximations to the price of the American put and early exercise boundary near expiry. We show that for many families of non-Gaussian processes used in empirical studies of financial marke…
Using Maple, we compute some analytical solutions of a modified Black-Scholes equation, recently proposed, in the case of the European put option. We show that the modified Black-Scholes equation with the European put option is exactly solvable in terms of associated Laguerre polynomials. We make some numerical experim…
Study shows physical drift affects put-call parity enforcement, not just option payoffs.
problem Inconsistency between quoted put-call parity and actual market behavior.
method Examined SPX and RUT index options, used drift-preserving GBM term to improve fit.
result Physical drift enters the enforcement of risk-neutral parity, not just option payoffs.
The issue of developing simple Black-Scholes type approximations for pricing European options with large discrete dividends was popular since early 2000's with a few different approaches reported during the last 10 years. Moreover, it has been claimed that at least some of the resulting expressions represent high-quali…
We introduce a simple stochastic volatility model, whose novelty consists in taking into account hitting times of the asset price, and study the optimal stopping problem corresponding to a put option whose time horizon (after the asset price hits a certain level) is exponentially distributed. We obtain explicit optimal…
The problem of stock hedging is reconsidered in this paper, where a put option is chosen from a set of available put options to hedge the market risk of a stock. A formula is proposed to determine the probability that the potential loss exceeds a predetermined level of Value-at-Risk, which is used to find the optimal s…
Study near-maturity convergence rates of American put prices in Lévy models.
problem Analyzing convergence rates of optimal exercise prices in Lévy models.
method Examined two settings: jumps of unbounded and bounded variation, deriving near-maturity expansions.
result Near-maturity convergence rate of optimal exercise price is of order √(T-t).
This paper studies the parabolic free boundary problem arising from pricing American-style put options on an asset whose index follows a geometric Brownian motion process. The contribution is to propose a condition for that the early exercise boundary is a convex function.
Study perpetual put options using nonlinear Black-Scholes equations.
problem Analyzing early exercise boundaries for perpetual put options.
method Transformed into a nonlinear stationary Black-Scholes equation and solved numerically.
result Numerical results of early exercise boundary, option price and their parameters.
In this work, we expand the idea of Samuelson[3] and Shepp[2,5,6] for stock optimization using the Bachelier model [4] as our models for the stock price at the money (X[stock price]= K[strike price]) for the American call and put options [1]. At the money (X= K) for American options, the expected payoff of both the cal…
We put together some of the efforts by several people of making aspects of fibre bundle theory into algebra. The initiator of these efforts was Charles Ehresmann, who put the notion of groupoid and groupoid action in the focus of fibre bundle theory in general, and in connection theory in particular.
We develop closed-form approximations for European put options under stochastic volatility models.
problem Tackling the pricing of European put options under stochastic volatility models with time-dependent parameters.
method Using a second-order Taylor expansion around the mean of the argument, we write the option price as an expectation of a Black-Scholes formula. We then simplify the resulting expectations and derive closed-form pricing formulas under the assumption of piecewise-constant parameters.
result We derive closed-form pricing formulas and bounds on the remainder term generated by the Taylor expansion, showing that the errors are well within acceptable ranges for practical applications.
This study uses DRL to hedge American put options, outperforming traditional methods.
problem Hedging American put options with high accuracy and low transaction costs.
method Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) method, trained on stochastic volatility models.
result DRL agents outperform traditional methods in both simulated and real-world scenarios.
Researchers develop explicit approximations for European put options in stochastic volatility models.
problem Developing accurate approximations for European put option prices in stochastic volatility models.
method Exploits expansions of the mixing representation of the put option price using Malliavin calculus.
result Explicit formulas for option prices and error bounds are derived, with closed-form solutions under piecewise-constant parameters.
Paper calculates perpetual American put option pricing with drawdown event in Lévy market.
problem Pricing perpetual American put options with a drawdown event in a Lévy market.
method Derives explicit price using geometric Lévy process with downward jumps, optimal stopping rule, and martingale arguments.
result Optimal stopping rule is the first time asset price falls below a specific value.
Compact scheme solves American put options with regime-switching using finite differences and Hermite interpolation.
problem Pricing American put options with regime-switching model.
method Logarithmic transformation, compact finite difference scheme, Hermite interpolation.
result The scheme provides an accurate and fast solution compared to other methods.
Study pricing of American put options with stochastic interest rate and finite maturity.
problem Pricing American put options with stochastic interest rate and finite maturity.
method Applied stochastic calculus and Ito's lemma to derive the option value's formula and optimal exercise boundary.
result Existence and parametrisation of the optimal exercise boundary for the Vasicek model.
The main result of this paper is a probabilistic proof of the penalty method for approximating the price of an American put in the Black-Scholes market. The method gives a parametrized family of partial differential equations, and by varying the parameter the corresponding solutions converge to the price of an American…
Study finds optimal boundaries for hedging a perpetual American put option.
problem Hedging perpetual American put options using delta hedging is impractical.
method Considered a seller of a perpetual American put option with a single trade.
result Determined optimal trading boundaries and hedging strategy.
Researchers calculate the price of a perpetual put option in Lévy models.
problem Calculating the price of a perpetual American put option in Lévy models.
method Derive the explicit price using geometric spectrally negative Lévy processes and optimal threshold.
result The optimal exercise time is the first epoch when the asset price drops below an optimal threshold.
In this paper we show how to relate European call and put options on multiple assets to certain convex bodies called lift zonoids. Based on this, geometric properties can be translated into economic statements and vice versa. For instance, the European call-put parity corresponds to the central symmetry property, while…
We prove that the perpetual American put option price of level dependent volatility model with compound Poisson jumps is convex and is the classical solution of its associated quasi-variational inequality, that it is C2 except at the stopping boundary and that it is C1 everywhere (i.e. the smooth pasting conditio…
Study uses put-call parity to estimate cost of funding in equity derivatives markets.
problem Estimating the cost of funding in active equity derivative markets.
method Develops a method using European put and call prices to recover the implicit discount factor and cost of funding.
result Identifies the cost of funding in major equity markets, showing it is typically around 34 basis points above OIS.
Study tests how U.S. equity prices align with global asset frequencies using financial variables.
problem Testing whether U.S. equity prices align with global asset frequencies using financial variables.
method Examines SPX and RUT gaps, uses OIS-based funding, volatility, trading-friction, financial-condition variables, and residual information.
result Gains in fit survive broad-dollar neutralization, alternative blocks, PCA, residualization, and nested horizon selection, supporting reduced-form P-Q alignment.
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…
We consider an American put option under the CEV process. This corresponds to a free boundary problem for a PDE. We show that this free bondary satisfies a nonlinear integral equation, and analyze it in the limit of small ρ = 2r/σ2, where r is the interest rate and σ is the volatility. We use perturbation met…
We prove local Lipschitz property of the map which puts in correspondence to each N--net different from (N−1)--net its Chebyshev center. If dimension of Eucledean or Lobachevskii space is greater than 1 and net consists of more than 2 points we show that this map is not Lipschits in a neighbourhood of the space of …
Establish C^{1,2} regularity of American value functions in Heston model
problem Regularity of American put options in Heston model
method PDE techniques
result C^{1,2} regularity in exercise domain and smooth-fit principle
In this paper, we study connected components of strata of the space of quadratic differentials lying over $\T_g$. We use certain general properties of sections of line bundles to put a upper bound on the number of connected components, and a generalized version of the Gauss map as an invariant to put a lower bound on t…
In this paper we consider the problem of pricing a perpetual American put option in an exponential regime-switching Lévy model. For the case of the (dense) class of phase-type jumps and finitely many regimes we derive an explicit expression for the value function. The solution of the corresponding first passage problem…
Study evaluates three position sizing methods for put-writing on S&P 500 Index options.
problem Underdeveloped practical implementation of short-dated volatility-selling strategies.
method Kelly criterion, VIX-based volatility scaling, hybrid method.
result Ultra-short-dated, out-of-the-money options deliver superior risk-adjusted returns.
In practical work with American put options, it is important to be able to know when to exercise the option, and when not to do so. In computer simulation based on the standard theory of geometric Brownian motion for simulating stock price movements, this problem is fairly easy to handle for options with a short lifesp…
A new method solves American put options with high accuracy and speed.
problem Solving American put options with high accuracy and speed.
method Adaptive fourth-order Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method coupled with a fourth-order compact scheme.
result The method provides a more accurate solution and better performance in terms of computational speed.
Paper calculates perpetual put option pricing with drawdown cap.
problem Pricing perpetual American put options with drawdown constraints.
method Derives explicit formula using Black-Scholes model and martingale theory.
result Optimal exercise occurs at first drawdown below a threshold.
Pricing Chinese convertible bonds using Monte Carlo simulation and dynamic programming.
problem Pricing Chinese convertible bonds accurately.
method Monte Carlo simulation and dynamic programming with regression and backward induction.
result An underpriced strategy significantly outperforms benchmarks.