Title :
Perpetual American options under Levy processes
Author :
Boyarchenko, S.I. ; Levendorski, S.Z.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Econ., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2002, Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7516-5
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2002.1185072