Title
A front-fixing finite element method for the valuation of American options with regime switching
Abstract
American option problems under regime-switching model are considered in this paper. The conjectures in [H. Yang, A numerical analysis of American options with regime switching, J. Sci. Comput. 44 2010, pp. 69–91] about the position of early exercise prices are proved, which generalize the results in [F. Yi, American put option with regime-switching volatility finite time horizon – Variational inequality approach, Math. Methods. Appl. Sci. 31 2008, pp. 1461–1477] by allowing the interest rates to be different in two states. A front-fixing finite element method for the free boundary problems is proposed and implemented. Its stability is established under reasonable assumptions. Numerical results are given to examine the rate of convergence of our method and compare it with the usual finite element method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1080/00207160.2012.663911
Int. J. Comput. Math.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
regime switching,usual finite element method,american option,regime-switching model,front-fixing finite element method,numerical analysis,finite time horizon,numerical result,american option problem,j. sci,regime-switching volatility,finite element method,rate of convergence,interest rate,variational inequality,free boundary problem
Journal
89
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
0020-7160
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
AnthonyD. Holmes140.48
Hongtao Yang2327.41
Shuhua Zhang3389.06