Title
A pruned and bootstrapped American option simulator
Abstract
The pricing of American options on multiple assets or with path-dependent payoffs is an important but computationally challenging problem. In earlier work, we introduced simulation estimators for this problem which, though biased, are consistent and asymptotically unbiased. In this paper, we introduce enhancements to reduce bias. One enhancement exploits more easily computed European option prices; another uses bootstrapping for bias estimation.
Year
DOI
Venue
1995
10.1145/224401.224467
Winter Simulation Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
bootstrapped american option simulator,american option,bias estimation,multiple asset,european option price,earlier work,simulation estimator,computationally challenging problem,path-dependent payoff,convergence,error correction,computational modeling,bootstrapping,monte carlo methods,dynamic programming,pricing,economic indicators,security
Econometrics,Monte Carlo methods for option pricing,Bootstrapping,Simulation,Computer science,Exploit,Financial data processing,Technical report,Estimator
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7803-3018-8
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mark Broadie130253.77
Paul Glasserman249695.86