Pricing American Options under Stochastic Volatility and Stochastic Interest Rates
34 Pages Posted: 1 Mar 2007 Last revised: 21 Sep 2009
Date Written: September 1, 2009
Abstract
We introduce a new analytical approach to price American options. Using an explicit and intuitive proxy for the exercise rule, we derive tractable pricing formulas using a short-maturity asymptotic expansion. Depending on model parameters, this method can accurately price options with time-to-maturity up to several years. The main advantage of our approach over existing methods lies in its straightforward extension to models with stochastic volatility and stochastic interest rates. We exploit this advantage by providing an analysis of the impact of volatility mean-reversion, volatility of volatility, and correlations on the American put price.
Keywords: American options, stochastic volatility, stochastic interest rates, asymptotic approximation.
JEL Classification: G12
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