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A First-Order BSPDE for Swing Option Pricing

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  • Christian Bender
  • Nikolai Dokuchaev

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We study an optimal control problem related to swing option pricing in a general non-Markovian setting in continuous time. As a main result we show that the value process solves a first-order non-linear backward stochastic partial differential equation. Based on this result we can characterize the set of optimal controls and derive a dual minimization problem.

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  • Christian Bender & Nikolai Dokuchaev, 2013. "A First-Order BSPDE for Swing Option Pricing," Papers 1305.3988, arXiv.org.
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    1. Nikolai Dokuchaev, 2016. "First Order BSPDEs in higher dimension for optimal control problems," Papers 1603.06825, arXiv.org, revised Oct 2018.
    2. Christian Bender & Nikolai Dokuchaev, 2014. "A First-Order BSPDE for Swing Option Pricing: Classical Solutions," Papers 1402.6444, arXiv.org, revised Nov 2014.

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