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Radial Basis Functions with Partition of Unity Method for American Options with Stochastic Volatility

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  • Reza Mollapourasl

    (Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University
    Oregon State University)

  • Ali Fereshtian

    (Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University)

  • Michèle Vanmaele

    (Ghent University)

Abstract

In this article, we price American options under Heston’s stochastic volatility model using a radial basis function (RBF) with partition of unity method (PUM) applied to a linear complementary formulation of the free boundary partial differential equation problem. RBF-PUMs are local meshfree methods that are accurate and flexible with respect to the problem geometry and that produce algebraic problems with sparse matrices which have a moderate condition number. Next, a Crank–Nicolson time discretisation is combined with the operator splitting method to get a fully discrete problem. To better control the computational cost and the accuracy, adaptivity is used in the spatial discretisation. Numerical experiments illustrate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed algorithm.

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  • Reza Mollapourasl & Ali Fereshtian & Michèle Vanmaele, 2019. "Radial Basis Functions with Partition of Unity Method for American Options with Stochastic Volatility," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 53(1), pages 259-287, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:kap:compec:v:53:y:2019:i:1:d:10.1007_s10614-017-9739-8
    DOI: 10.1007/s10614-017-9739-8
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