The American straddle close to expiry

<p/> <p>We address the pricing of American straddle options. We use a technique due to Kim (1990) to derive an expression involving integrals for the price of such an option close to expiry. We then evaluate this expression on the dual optimal exercise boundaries to obtain a set of integ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mallier Roland, Alobaidi Ghada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2006-01-01
Series:Boundary Value Problems
Online Access:http://www.boundaryvalueproblems.com/content/2006/32835