Pricing Perpetual American put options with asset-dependent discounting
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 is a family of stopping times, is a discount function and is an expectation taken with respect to a martingale measure. Moreover, we assume that the asset price process is a geometric L\'evy process with negative exponential jumps, i.e. . The asset-dependent discounting is reflected in the function, so this approach is a generalisation of the classic case when is constant. It turns out that under certain conditions on the function, the value function 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 such that 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}
}