Russian and American put options under exponential phase-type Lévy models

Søren Asmussen, Florin Avram and Martijn R. Pistorius

Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 2004, vol. 109, issue 1, 79-111

Abstract: Consider the American put and Russian option (Ann. Appl. Probab. 3 (1993) 603; Theory Probab. Appl. 39 (1994) 103; Ann. Appl. Probab. 3 (1993) 641) with the stock price modeled as an exponential Lévy process. We find an explicit expression for the price in the dense class of Lévy processes with phase-type jumps in both directions. The solution rests on the reduction to the first passage time problem for (reflected) Lévy processes and on an explicit solution of the latter in the phase-type case via martingale stopping and Wiener-Hopf factorization. The same type of approach is also applied to the more general class of regime switching Lévy processes with phase-type jumps.

Keywords: Lévy; process; Markov; additive; process; First; passage; time; Wald; martingale; Wiener-Hopf; factorization; Russian; option; Optimal; stopping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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