• 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