Elizondo, Rocío; Padilla, Pablo; Bladt, Mogens - Banco de México - 2009
We give a new way to price American options, using Samuelson´s formula. We first obtain the option price corresponding to a European option at time t, weighting it by the probability that the underlying asset takes the value S at time t. This factor is given by the solution of the Fokker-Planck...