David S. Bunch (Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis,) Herb Johnson (A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California, Riverside)
Abstract
We derive an expression for the critical stock price for the American put. We start by expressing the put price as an integral involving first-passage probabilities. This approach yields intuition for Merton's result for the perpetual put. We then consider the finite-lived case. Using (1) the fact that the put value ceases to depend on time when the critical stock price is reached and (2) the result that an American put equals a European put plus an early-exercise premium, we derive the critical stock price. We approximate the critical-stock-price function to compute accurate put prices. Copyright The American Finance Association 2000.
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Volume (Year): 55 (2000) Issue (Month): 5 (October) Pages: 2333-2356 Download reference. The following formats are available: HTML
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