Title : 
On the American Put Option with Ambiguity
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Sch. of Finance, Shandong Econ. Univ., Jinan, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Owing to ambiguity in markets, this article introduces a generalized model to price the American put option with multiple priors in continuous time. Under some feasible conditions, the problem of American put option under ambiguity can be reduced to a pertinent free boundary problem in a Markovian setting. We can give a conservative evaluation for the American option under ambiguity, since the size of k-ignorance can be estimated by the historical data. Our methods show an effective optimal timing strategy against the stock price behavior and ambiguity aversion.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Markov processes; boundary-value problems; pricing; share prices; stock markets; American put option; Markovian setting; ambiguity aversion; boundary problem; free boundary problem; k-ignorance; optimal timing strategy; stock price behavior; Differential equations; Economics; Finance; Mathematical model; Pricing; Stochastic processes; Uncertainty; ?-ignorance; Ambiguity premium; American put option; Backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE);
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Business Intelligence and Financial Engineering (BIFE), 2011 Fourth International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Wuhan
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4577-1541-9
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/BIFE.2011.87