Abstract
The drift, the risk-free interest rate, and the volatility change over time horizon in realistic financial world. These frustrations break the necessary assumptions in the Black-Scholes model (BSM) in which all parameters are assumed to be constant. To better model the real markets, a modified BSM is proposed for numerically evaluating options price-changeable parameters are allowed through the backward Markov regime switching. The method of fundamental solutions (MFS) is applied to solve the modified model and price a given option. A series of numerical simulations are provided to illustrate the effect of the changing market on option pricing.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 17-33 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Frontiers of Mathematics in China |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 2011 |
User-Defined Keywords
- American option
- backward Markov regime switching
- European option
- free boundary problem
- method of fundamental solutions (MFS)