An ETD Method for American Options under the Heston Model

[EN] A numerical method for American options pricing on assets under the Heston stochastic volatility model is developed. A preliminary transformation is applied to remove the mixed derivative term avoiding known numerical draw-backs and reducing computational costs. Free boundary is treated by the...

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Authors: Company Rossi, Rafael|||0000-0001-5217-1889, Jódar Sánchez, Lucas Antonio|||0000-0002-9672-6249, Egorova, Vera N., Fuster Valls, Ferran
Format: article
Publication Date:2020
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repository:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/161206
Online Access:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/161206
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Heston model
American option pricing
Exponential time differencing
Semi-discretization
MATEMATICA APLICADA
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Summary:[EN] A numerical method for American options pricing on assets under the Heston stochastic volatility model is developed. A preliminary transformation is applied to remove the mixed derivative term avoiding known numerical draw-backs and reducing computational costs. Free boundary is treated by the penalty method. Transformed nonlinear partial differential equation is solved numerically by using the method of lines. For full discretization the exponential time differen-cing method is used. Numerical analysis establishes the stability and positivity of the proposed method. The numerical convergence behaviour and effectiveness are investigated in extensive numerical experiments.