Pricing European-style Asian options based on the arithmetic average, under the Black and Scholes model, involves estimating an integral (a mathematical expectation) for which no easily computable analytical solution is available. Pricing their American-style counterparts, which provide early...

In the framework of the displaced-diffusion LIBOR market model, we derive the pathwise adjoint method for the iterative predictor-corrector and one of the Glasserman–Zhao drift approximations in the spot measure. This allows us to compute fast deltas and vegas under these schemes. We compare...

We present an iterative procedure for computing the optimal Bermudan stopping time, hence the Bermudan Snell envelope. The method produces an increasing sequence of approximations of the Snell envelope from below, which coincide with the Snell envelope after finitely many steps. Then, by...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the importance of business time, and market opening/closing times and days, for American option pricing. Design/methodology/approach – A Bermudan pricing approach is employed whereby the option can be exercised only during the times and days...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the importance of business time, and market opening/closing times and days, for American option pricing. Design/methodology/approach – A Bermudan pricing approach is employed whereby the option can be exercised only during the times and days...