IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/finsto/v9y2005i1p89-107.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Valuation of American options in the presence of event risk

Author

Listed:
  • Alex Szimayer

Abstract

This paper studies the valuation of American options in the presence of external/non-hedgeable event risk. When the event occurs, the American option is terminated and a rebate is paid instead of the promised pay-off profile. Consequently, the presence of event risk influences the exercise strategy of the option holder. For the financial market in a diffusion setting, the probabilistic structure in terms of equivalent martingale measures is briefly analysed. Then, for a given equivalent martingale measure the optimal stopping problem of the American option is solved. As a main result, no-arbitrage bounds for American option values in the presence of event risk are derived, as well as hedging strategies corresponding to the no-arbitrage bounds. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2005

Suggested Citation

  • Alex Szimayer, 2005. "Valuation of American options in the presence of event risk," Finance and Stochastics, Springer, vol. 9(1), pages 89-107, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:finsto:v:9:y:2005:i:1:p:89-107
    DOI: 10.1007/s00780-004-0141-8
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s00780-004-0141-8
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1007/s00780-004-0141-8?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Libo Li & Ruyi Liu & Marek Rutkowski, 2022. "Vulnerable European and American Options in a Market Model with Optional Hazard Process," Papers 2212.12860, arXiv.org.
    2. Gapeev, Pavel V. & Li, Libo, 2022. "Perpetual American standard and lookback options with event risk and asymmetric information," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 114940, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    3. Dai, Min & Kwok, Yue Kuen & You, Hong, 2007. "Intensity-based framework and penalty formulation of optimal stopping problems," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 31(12), pages 3860-3880, December.
    4. Zbigniew Palmowski & Paweł Stȩpniak, 2023. "Last-Passage American Cancelable Option in Lévy Models," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 16(2), pages 1-14, January.
    5. Huansang Xu & Ruyi Liu & Marek Rutkowski, 2023. "Equity Protection Swaps: A New Type of Investment Insurance for Holders of Superannuation Accounts," Papers 2305.09472, arXiv.org, revised Apr 2024.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:finsto:v:9:y:2005:i:1:p:89-107. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.