Beveridge, Christopher; Joshi, Mark; Tang, Robert - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 37 (2013) 7, pp. 1342-1361
We introduce a set of improvements which allow the calculation of very tight lower bounds for Bermudan derivatives using Monte Carlo simulation. These tight lower bounds can be computed quickly, and with minimal hand-crafting. Our focus is on accelerating policy iteration to the point where it...