• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: A NUMERICAL METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE OPTIMAL EXERCISE PRICE TO AMERICAN OPTIONS
  • Contributor: Wu, Xiong-hua; Feng, Xiu-juan
  • imprint: Institute of Computational Mathematices and Scientific/Engineering Computing(ICMSEC) Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2003
  • Published in: Journal of Computational Mathematics
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 0254-9409; 1991-7139
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  • Description: <p>American options can be exercised prior to the date of expiration, the valuation of American options then constitutes a free boundary value problem. How to determine the free boundary, i.e. the optimal exercise price, is a key problem. In this paper, a nonlinear equation is given. The free boundary can be obtained by solving the nonlinear equation and the numerical results are better.</p>