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Pricing Perpetual American put options with asset-dependent discounting

Mathematical Finance 2021-03-05 v1 Computational Finance

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to present an algorithm of pricing perpetual American put options with asset-dependent discounting. The value function of such an instrument can be described as \begin{equation*} V^{\omega}_{\text{A}^{\text{Put}}}(s) = \sup_{\tau\in\mathcal{T}} \mathbb{E}_{s}[e^{-\int_0^\tau \omega(S_w) dw} (K-S_\tau)^{+}], \end{equation*} where T\mathcal{T} is a family of stopping times, ω\omega is a discount function and E\mathbb{E} is an expectation taken with respect to a martingale measure. Moreover, we assume that the asset price process StS_t is a geometric L\'evy process with negative exponential jumps, i.e. St=seζt+σBti=1NtYiS_t = s e^{\zeta t + \sigma B_t - \sum_{i=1}^{N_t} Y_i}. The asset-dependent discounting is reflected in the ω\omega function, so this approach is a generalisation of the classic case when ω\omega is constant. It turns out that under certain conditions on the ω\omega function, the value function VAPutω(s)V^{\omega}_{\text{A}^{\text{Put}}}(s) is convex and can be represented in a closed form; see Al-Hadad and Palmowski (2021). We provide an option pricing algorithm in this scenario and we present exact calculations for the particular choices of ω\omega such that VAPutω(s)V^{\omega}_{\text{A}^{\text{Put}}}(s) takes a simplified form.

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@article{arxiv.2103.02948,
  title  = {Pricing Perpetual American put options with asset-dependent discounting},
  author = {Jonas Al-Hadad and Zbigniew Palmowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.02948},
  year   = {2021}
}