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We propose a deep learning method for solving the American options model with a free boundary feature. To extract the free boundary known as the early exercise boundary from our proposed method, we introduce the Landau transformation. For…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-12-13 Chinonso Nwankwo , Nneka Umeorah , Tony Ware , Weizhong Dai

Efficiently pricing multi-asset options is a challenging problem in quantitative finance. When the characteristic function is available, Fourier-based methods are competitive compared to alternative techniques because the integrand in the…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-01-17 Michael Samet , Christian Bayer , Chiheb Ben Hammouda , Antonis Papapantoleon , Raúl Tempone

Our goal is to analyze the system of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations arising in derivative securities pricing models. The European style of an option price is constructed as a difference of the certainty equivalents to the value functions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Pedro Polvora , Daniel Sevcovic

This paper considers utility indifference valuation of derivatives under model uncertainty and trading constraints, where the utility is formulated as an additive stochastic differential utility of both intertemporal consumption and…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-07-26 Huiwen Yan , Gechun Liang , Zhou Yang

In this paper, we introduce two novel methods to solve the American-style option pricing problem and its dual form at the same time using neural networks. Without applying nested Monte Carlo, the first method uses a series of neural…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-04-22 Ivan Guo , Nicolas Langrené , Jiahao Wu

For pricing American options, %after suitable discretization in space and time, a sequence of discrete linear complementarity problems (LCPs) or equivalently Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations need to be solved in a sequential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Xian-Ming Gu , Jun Liu , Cornelis W. Oosterlee

This paper investigates the pricing of financial derivatives and the calculation of their delta Greek when the underlying asset is a jump-diffusion process in which the stochastic intensity component follows the CIR process. Utilizing…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2025-02-04 Ayub Ahmadi , Mahdieh Tahmasebi

We present a path integral method to derive closed-form solutions for option prices in a stochastic volatility model. The method is explained in detail for the pricing of a plain vanilla option. The flexibility of our approach is…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-02 D. Lemmens , M. Wouters , J. Tempere , S. Foulon

We study the valuation of an American put option with a random time horizon given by the last exit time of the underlying asset from a fixed level. Since this random time is not a stopping time, the problem falls outside the classical…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Zhuoshu Wu , Libo Li

This paper mainly discusses the American option's hedging strategies via binomialmodel and the basic idea of pricing and hedging American option. Although the essential scheme of hedging is almost the same as European option, small…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-11-28 Jinshan Zhang

This paper presents the Runge-Kutta-Legendre finite difference scheme, allowing for an additional shift in its polynomial representation. A short presentation of the stability region, comparatively to the Runge-Kutta-Chebyshev scheme…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-06-24 Fabien Le Floc'h

We obtain a decomposition of the call option price for a very general stochastic volatility diffusion model extending the decomposition obtained by E. Al\`os in [2] for the Heston model. We realize that a new term arises when the stock…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-03-30 Raul Merino , Josep Vives

In this work we present an analytical model, based on the path-integral formalism of Statistical Mechanics, for pricing options using first-passage time problems involving both fixed and deterministically moving absorbing barriers under…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-04-24 Andre Catalao , Rogerio Rosenfeld

The matter of the stability for multi-asset American option pricing problems is a present remaining challenge. In this paper a general transformation of variables allows to remove cross derivative terms reducing the stencil of the proposed…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2017-01-31 Rafael Company , Vera Egorova , Lucas Jódar , Fazlollah Soleymani

The problem of European-style option pricing in time-changed L\'{e}vy models in the presence of compound Poisson jumps is considered. These jumps relate to sudden large drops in stock prices induced by political or economical hits. As the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-10 Roman V. Ivanov , Katsunori Ano

We continue a series of papers where prices of the barrier options written on the underlying, which dynamics follows some one factor stochastic model with time-dependent coefficients and the barrier, are obtained in semi-closed form, see…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-05-13 Peter Carr , Andrey Itkin , Dmitry Muravey

One method to compute the price of an arithmetic Asian option in a Levy driven model is based on the exponential functional of the underlying Levy process: If we know the distribution of the exponential functional, we can calculate the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-05-06 Daniel Hackmann , Alexey Kuznetsov

We derive the price of a spread option based on two assets which follow a bivariate volatility modulated Volterra process dynamics. Such a price dynamics is particularly relevant in energy markets, modelling for example the spot price of…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2014-09-23 Fred Espen Benth , Hanna Zdanowicz

We discuss the pricing and hedging of volatility options in some rough volatility models. First, we develop efficient Monte Carlo methods and asymptotic approximations for computing option prices and hedge ratios in models where…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2019-01-31 Blanka Horvath , Antoine Jacquier , Peter Tankov

We study the pricing of European-style options written on forward contracts within function-valued infinite-dimensional affine stochastic volatility models. The dynamics of the underlying forward price curves are modeled within the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-14 Jian He , Sven Karbach , Asma Khedher