Are American options European after all?

S\"oren Christensen, Jan Kallsen and Matthias Lenga

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Abstract: We call a given American option representable if there exists a European claim which dominates the American payoff at any time and such that the values of the two options coincide in the continuation region of the American option. This concept has interesting implications from a probabilistic, analytic, financial, and numeric point of view. Relying on methods from Jourdain and Martini (2001, 2002), Chrsitensen (2014) and convex duality, we make a first step towards verifying representability of American options.

Date: 2020-02
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Published in Ann. Appl. Probab. 32(2): 853-892 (April 2022)

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