A radial basis collocation method for pricing American options under regime-switching jump-diffusion models

  • Authors:
  • Ali Foroush Bastani;Zaniar Ahmadi;Davood Damircheli

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, P.O. Box 45195-1159, Zanjan, Iran;Department of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, P.O. Box 45195-1159, Zanjan, Iran;Department of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, P.O. Box 45195-1159, Zanjan, Iran

  • Venue:
  • Applied Numerical Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The Markovian regime-switching paradigm has become one of the prevailing models in mathematical finance. It is now widely known that under the regime-switching model, the market is incomplete and so the option valuation problem in this framework will be a challenging task of considerable importance for market practitioners and academia. Our concern here is to solve the pricing problem for American options in a Markov-modulated jump-diffusion model, based on a meshfree approach using radial basis functions. In this respect, we solve a set of coupled partial integro-differential equations with the free boundary feature by expanding the solution vector in terms of radial basis functions and then collocating the resulting system of equations at some pre-specified points. This method exhibits a superlinear order of convergence in space and a linear order in time and also has an acceptable speed in comparison with some existing methods. We will compare our results with some recently proposed approaches.