Pricing perpetual American catastrophe put options: A penalty function approach

X. Sheldon Lin and Tao Wang

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2009, vol. 44, issue 2, 287-295

Abstract: The expected discounted penalty function proposed in the seminal paper by Gerber and Shiu [Gerber, H.U., Shiu, E.S.W., 1998. On the time value of ruin. North Amer. Actuarial J. 2 (1), 48-78] has been widely used to analyze the joint distribution of the time of ruin, the surplus immediately before ruin and the deficit at ruin, and the related quantities in ruin theory. However, few of its applications can be found beyond except that Gerber and Landry [Gerber, H.U., Landry, B., 1998. On the discount penalty at ruin in a jump-diffusion and the perpetual put option. Insurance: Math. Econ. 22, 263-276] explored its use for the pricing of perpetual American put options. In this paper, we further explore the use of the expected discounted penalty function and mathematical tools developed for the function to evaluate perpetual American catastrophe equity put options. We obtain the analytical expression for the price of perpetual American catastrophe equity put options and conduct a numerical implementation for a wide range of parameter values. We show that the use of the expected discounted penalty function enables us to evaluate the perpetual American catastrophe equity put option with minimal numerical work.

Keywords: Catastrophe; equity; put; option; Compound; Poisson; losses; PCS; index; Mixture; of; Erlang; distributions; Surplus; process; Ruin; theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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