A unified approach to Bermudan and barrier options under stochastic volatility models with jumps

J. Lars Kirkby, Duy Nguyen, Zhenyu Cui

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Abstract

Many financial assets, such as currencies, commodities, and equity stocks, exhibit both jumps and stochastic volatility, which are especially prominent in the market after the financial crisis. Some strategic decision making problems also involve American-style options. In this paper, we develop a novel, fast and accurate method for pricing American and barrier options in regime switching jump diffusion models. By blending regime switching models and Markov chain approximation techniques in the Fourier domain, we provide a unified approach to price Bermudan, American options and barrier options under general stochastic volatility models with jumps. The models considered include Heston, Hull–White, Stein–Stein, Scott, the 3/2 model, and the recently proposed 4/2 model and the α-Hypergeometric model with general jump amplitude distributions in the return process. Applications include the valuation of discretely monitored contracts as well as continuously monitored contracts common in the foreign exchange markets. Numerical results are provided to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)75-100
Number of pages26
JournalJournal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Volume80
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2017

Keywords

  • American options
  • Barrier options
  • Frame projection
  • Jump diffusion
  • Regime switching
  • Stochastic volatility

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