Abstract. The purpose of this survey chapter is to present a transformation technique that can be used in analysis and numerical computation of the early exercise boundary for an American style of vanilla options that can be modelled by class of generalized Black-Scholes equations. We analyze qualitatively and quantitatively the early exercise boundary for a linear as well as a class of nonline...

In this paper we analyze a nonlinear generalization of the Black-Scholes equation for pricing American style call option in which the volatility may depend on the underlying asset price and the Gamma of the option. We propose a novel method of pricing American style call options by means of transformation of the free boundary problem for a nonlinear Black-Scholes equation into the so-called Gam...

The security dynamics described by the Black-Scholes equation with price-dependent variance can be approximated as a damped discrete-time hopping process on a recombining binomial tree. In a previous working paper, such a nonuniform tree was explicitly constructed in terms of the continuous-time variance. The present note outlines how the previous procedure could be extended to multifactor Blac...

in this paper, installment options on the underlying assetwhich evolves according to black-scholes model and pays constant dividendto its owner will be considered. applying arbitrage pricing theory,the non-homogeneous parabolic partial differential equation governingthe value of installment option is derived. then, penalty method is usedto value the european continuous installment call option.

In this paper, a high-order and fast numerical method is investigated for the time-fractional Black-Scholes equation. order to deal with typical weak initial singularity of solution, we construct finite difference scheme variable time steps, where fractional derivative approximated by nonuniform Alikhanov formula sum-of-exponentials (SOE) technique. spatial direction, an average approximation f...

We consider an economic model with a deterministic money market account and a finite set of basic economic risks. The real-world prices of the risks are represented by continuous time stochastic processes satisfying a stochastic differential equation of diffusion type. For the simple class of log-normally distributed instantaneous rates of return, we construct an explicit state-price deflator. ...