Abstract
A compound option (the mother option) gives the holder the right, but not obligation to buy (long) or sell (short) the underlying option (the daughter option).
In this paper, we consider the problem of pricing American-type compound options when the underlying dynamics follow Heston’s stochastic volatility and with stochastic interest rate driven by Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (CIR) processes. We use a partial differential equation (PDE) approach to obtain a numerical solution. The problem is formulated as the solution to a two-pass free boundary PDE problem which is solved via a sparse grid approach and is found to be accurate and efficient compared with the results from a benchmark solution based on a least-squares Monte Carlo simulation combined with the PSOR.
In this paper, we consider the problem of pricing American-type compound options when the underlying dynamics follow Heston’s stochastic volatility and with stochastic interest rate driven by Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (CIR) processes. We use a partial differential equation (PDE) approach to obtain a numerical solution. The problem is formulated as the solution to a two-pass free boundary PDE problem which is solved via a sparse grid approach and is found to be accurate and efficient compared with the results from a benchmark solution based on a least-squares Monte Carlo simulation combined with the PSOR.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 71-92 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Journal of Computational Finance |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 30 Sept 2013 |