American Option Pricing with Importance Sampling and Shifted Regressions

This paper proposes a new method for pricing American options that uses importance sampling to reduce estimator bias and variance in simulation-and-regression based methods. Our suggested method uses regressions under the importance measure directly, instead of under the nominal measure as is the st...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Francois-Michel Boire, R. Mark Reesor, Lars Stentoft
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-07-01
Series:Journal of Risk and Financial Management
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/14/8/340