Exercise strategies for American exotic options under ambiguity

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We analyze several exotic options of American style in a multiple prior setting and study the optimal exercise strategy from the perspective of an ambiguity averse buyer in a discrete time model of Cox-Ross-Rubinstein style. The multiple prior model relaxes the assumption of a known distribution of the stock price process and takes into account decision maker's inability to completely determine the underlying asset's price dynamics. In order to evaluate the American option the decision maker needs to solve a stopping problem. Unlike the classical approach ambiguity averse decision maker uses a class of measures to evaluate her expected payoffs instead of a unique prior. Given time-consistency of the set of priors an appropriate version of backward induction leads to the solution as in the classical case. Using a duality result the multiple prior stopping problem can be related to the classical stopping problem for a certain probability measure - the worst-case measure. Therefore, the problem can be reduced to identifying the worst-case measure. We obtain the form of the worst-case measure for different classes of exotic options explicitly exploiting the observation that the option can be decomposed in simpler event-driven claims.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Papers ; No. 421

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates ; Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty ; Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
• Subject: Worst-case measure ; Ambiguity aversion ; Binomial methods ; American exotic options ; Optimal exercise ; Optionsgeschäft ; Entscheidung bei Unsicherheit ; Risikoaversion ; Suchtheorie ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Chudjakow, Tatjana ; Vorbrink, Jörg
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Bielefeld University, Institute of Mathematical Economics (IMW)
• (where): Bielefeld
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/43825
• URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:361-15699
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET