Pricing the exotic: Path-dependent American options with stochastic barriers

We develop a novel pricing strategy that approximates the value of an American option with exotic features through a portfolio of European options with different maturities. Among our findings, we show that: (i) our model is numerically robust in pricing plain vanilla American options; (ii) the mode...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alejandro Rojas-Bernal, Mauricio Villamizar-Villegas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-03-01
Series:Latin American Journal of Central Banking
Subjects:
C53
E58
G13
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666143821000053