Pricing American Options with a Non-Constant Penalty Parameter

As the American early exercise results in a free boundary problem, in this article we add a penalty term to obtain a partial differential equation, and we also focus on an improved definition of the penalty term for American options. We replace the constant penalty parameter with a time-dependent fu...

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Main Authors: Anna Clevenhaus, Matthias Ehrhardt, Michael Günther, Daniel Ševčovič
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-06-01
Series:Journal of Risk and Financial Management
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/13/6/124