In the spirit of Kyprianou and Ott (in Acta Appl. Math., to appear, <CitationRef CitationID="CR11">2013</CitationRef>) and Ott (in Ann. Appl. Probab. 23:2327–2356, <CitationRef CitationID="CR15">2013</CitationRef>) we consider an option whose payoff corresponds to a capped American lookback option with floating strike and solve the associated pricing problem (an optimal stopping...</citationref></citationref>

Sustaining efficiency and stability by properly controlling the equity to asset ratio is one of the most important and difficult challenges in bank management. Due to unexpected and abrupt decline of asset values, a bank must closely monitor its net worth as well as market conditions, and one of...