American and Exotic Option Pricing with Jump Diffusions and Other Lévy Processes

Download or read book American and Exotic Option Pricing with Jump Diffusions and Other Lévy Processes written by Justin Kirkby and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In general, no analytical formulas exist for pricing discretely monitored exotic options, even when a geometric Brownian motion governs the risk-neutral underlying. While specialized numerical algorithms exist for pricing particular contracts, few can be applied universally with consistent success and with general Lévy dynamics. This paper develops a general methodology for pricing early exercise and exotic financial options by extending the recently developed PROJ method. We are able to efficiently obtain accurate values for complex products including Bermudan/American options, Bermudan barrier options, survival probabilities and credit default swaps by value recursion, European barrier and lookback/hindsight options by density recursion, and arithmetic Asian options by characteristic function recursion. This paper presents a unified approach to tackling these and related problems. Algorithms are provided for each option type, along with a demonstration of convergence. We also provide a large set of reference prices for exotic, American and European options under Black-Scholes-Merton, Normal Inverse Gaussian, Kou's double exponential jump diffusion, Variance Gamma, KoBoL/CGMY and Merton's jump diffusion models.