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On a pricing problem for a multi-asset option with general transaction costs

Computational Finance 2018-10-01 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We consider a Black-Scholes type equation arising on a pricing model for a multi-asset option with general transaction costs. The pioneering work of Leland is thus extended in two different ways: on the one hand, the problem is multi-dimensional since it involves different underlying assets; on the other hand, the transaction costs are not assumed to be constant (i.e. a fixed proportion of the traded quantity). In this work, we generalize Leland's condition and prove the existence of a viscosity solution for the corresponding fully nonlinear initial value problem using Perron method. Moreover, we develop a numerical ADI scheme to find an approximated solution. We apply this method on a specific multi-asset derivative and we obtain the option price under different pricing scenarios.

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@article{arxiv.1704.02036,
  title  = {On a pricing problem for a multi-asset option with general transaction costs},
  author = {Pablo Amster and Andres P. Mogni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.02036},
  year   = {2018}
}

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20 pages, 13 figures

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