DocumentCode
3268427
Title
Perpetual American options under Levy processes
Author
Boyarchenko, S.I. ; Levendorski, S.Z.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Econ., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA
Volume
4
fYear
2002
fDate
10-13 Dec. 2002
Firstpage
4446
Abstract
We consider perpetual American options assuming, that under a chosen equivalent martingale measure the shock returns follow a Levy process. For put and call options, their analogs for more general payoffs, and a wide class, of Levy processes, which contains Brownian motion, normal inverse Gaussian processes, hyperbolic processes, truncated Levy processes and their mixtures, we obtain formulas for the optimal exercise price and the fair price of the option in terms of the factors in the Wiener-Hopf factorization formula, i.e., in terms of the resolvents of the supremum and infimum processes, and derive explicit formulas for these factors. For calls, puts and some other options, the results are valid for any Levy process.
Keywords
Brownian motion; Gaussian processes; hyperbolic equations; integral equations; optimal control; stochastic processes; stock markets; Brownian motion; hyperbolic processes; infimum processes; martingales; normal inverse Gaussian processes; optimal exercise price; perpetual american options; supremum resolvents; truncated levy processes; wiener hopf factorization formula; Bonding; Brownian motion; Gaussian processes; Pricing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Decision and Control, 2002, Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Conference on
ISSN
0191-2216
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7516-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CDC.2002.1185072
Filename
1185072
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