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Pricing American currency options in an exponential Levy model

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  • Marc Chesney
  • M. Jeanblanc

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In this article the problem of the American option valuation in a Levy process setting is analysed. The perpetual case is first considered. Without possible discontinuities (i.e. with negative jumps in the call case), known results concerning the currency option value as well as the exercise boundary are obtained with a martingale approach. With possible discontinuities of the underlying process at the exercise boundary (i.e. with positive jumps in the call case), original results are derived by relying on first passage time and overshoot associated with a Levy process. For finite life American currency calls, the formula derived by Bates or Zhang, in the context of a negative jump size, is tested. It is basically an extension of the one developed by Mac Millan and extended by Barone-Adesi and Whaley. It is shown that Bates' model generates pretty good results only when the process is continuous at the exercise boundary.

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  • Marc Chesney & M. Jeanblanc, 2004. "Pricing American currency options in an exponential Levy model," Applied Mathematical Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(3), pages 207-225.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apmtfi:v:11:y:2004:i:3:p:207-225
    DOI: 10.1080/1350486042000249336
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    1. Marc Chesney & Pierre Lasserre & Bruno Troja, 2017. "Mitigating global warming: a real options approach," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 255(1), pages 465-506, August.
    2. L. Alili & A. E. Kyprianou, 2005. "Some remarks on first passage of Levy processes, the American put and pasting principles," Papers math/0508487, arXiv.org.
    3. Marzia De Donno & Zbigniew Palmowski & Joanna Tumilewicz, 2020. "Double continuation regions for American and Swing options with negative discount rate in Lévy models," Mathematical Finance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 30(1), pages 196-227, January.
    4. Leippold, Markus & Vasiljević, Nikola, 2017. "Pricing and disentanglement of American puts in the hyper-exponential jump-diffusion model," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 78-94.
    5. Fajardo, José & Mordecki, Ernesto, 2008. "Duality and Symmetry with Time-Changed Lévy Processes," Brazilian Review of Econometrics, Sociedade Brasileira de Econometria - SBE, vol. 28(1), May.
    6. Jonas Al-Hadad & Zbigniew Palmowski, 2020. "Perpetual American options with asset-dependent discounting," Papers 2007.09419, arXiv.org, revised Jan 2021.
    7. Barrieu, Pauline & Bellamy, N., 2007. "Optimal hitting time and perpetual option in a non-Lévy model: application to real options," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 5099, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    8. Ludovic Mathys, 2019. "Valuing Tradeability in Exponential L\'evy Models," Papers 1912.00469, arXiv.org, revised Feb 2020.
    9. Medvedev, Alexey & Scaillet, Olivier, 2010. "Pricing American options under stochastic volatility and stochastic interest rates," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 98(1), pages 145-159, October.
    10. Ludovic Mathys, 2019. "On Extensions of the Barone-Adesi & Whaley Method to Price American-Type Options," Papers 1912.00454, arXiv.org.
    11. Walter Farkas & Ludovic Mathys, 2020. "Geometric Step Options with Jumps. Parity Relations, PIDEs, and Semi-Analytical Pricing," Papers 2002.09911, arXiv.org.

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