Optimal Convergence Rate of the Binomial Tree Scheme for American Options with Jump Diffusion and Their Free Boundaries

  • Authors:
  • Jin Liang;Bei Hu;Lishang Jiang

  • Affiliations:
  • liang and jiang;b1hu@nd.edu;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

An American put option with jump diffusion can be modeled as an integro-variational inequality. With a penalization approximation and under the stability condition $\frac{\sigma^2 \Delta t}{\Delta x^2}\le 1$, where $\Delta x ={\rm ln}\,\frac {S_{n+1}}{S_n}$ ($S_t$-underlying asset price), we obtain the optimal convergence rate $O((\Delta x)+(\Delta t)^{1/2})$ of the binomial tree scheme for this variational inequality. Moreover, we define an approximate optimal exercise boundary within the framework of the binomial tree scheme and derive the convergence rate estimate $O((\Delta t)^{1/4})$ to the actual free boundary.