• DocumentCode
    3038574
  • Title

    A Fast Algorithm for Solving the Pricing of American Options

  • Author

    Ren, Xiaoyu ; Li, Shenghong ; Shao, Xinping

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Math., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    24-26 July 2009
  • Firstpage
    325
  • Lastpage
    328
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we provide a fast algorithm for solving the pricing of American options, which is easier to apply and implement in computer comparing with general difference method. Our research substantially reduces the computational time as well as improves the computational efficiency and accuracy considerably. Furthermore, we propose and implement a numerical procedure for computing the pricing of American options. The algorithm of pricing American options proposed in this paper shows greater improvement over the traditional difference method. Also this method is useful to get other approximate solution on obstacle problem.
  • Keywords
    boundary-value problems; finite difference methods; pricing; American options pricing; computational accuracy; computational efficiency; finite difference method; Computational efficiency; Pricing; Algorithm; American options; Finite difference method; The obstacle problem; The region of the contact;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Business Intelligence and Financial Engineering, 2009. BIFE '09. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3705-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/BIFE.2009.81
  • Filename
    5208874