Volume 2, Issue 2
A Power Penalty Approach to Numerical Solutions of Two-Asset American Options
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Numer. Math. Theor. Meth. Appl., 2 (2009), pp. 202-223.

Published online: 2009-02

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This paper aims to develop a power penalty method for a linear parabolic variational inequality (VI) in two spatial dimensions governing the two-asset American option valuation. This method yields a two-dimensional nonlinear parabolic PDE containing a power penalty term with penalty constant $\lambda > 1$ and a power parameter $k>0$. We show that the nonlinear PDE is uniquely solvable and the solution of the PDE converges to that of the VI at the rate of order $O( \lambda^{-k/2})$. A fitted finite volume method is designed to solve the nonlinear PDE, and some numerical experiments are performed to illustrate the usefulness of this method.

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Complementarity problem, option pricing, penalty method, finite volume method.

65M12, 65M60, 91B28

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This paper aims to develop a power penalty method for a linear parabolic variational inequality (VI) in two spatial dimensions governing the two-asset American option valuation. This method yields a two-dimensional nonlinear parabolic PDE containing a power penalty term with penalty constant $\lambda > 1$ and a power parameter $k>0$. We show that the nonlinear PDE is uniquely solvable and the solution of the PDE converges to that of the VI at the rate of order $O( \lambda^{-k/2})$. A fitted finite volume method is designed to solve the nonlinear PDE, and some numerical experiments are performed to illustrate the usefulness of this method.

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This paper aims to develop a power penalty method for a linear parabolic variational inequality (VI) in two spatial dimensions governing the two-asset American option valuation. This method yields a two-dimensional nonlinear parabolic PDE containing a power penalty term with penalty constant $\lambda > 1$ and a power parameter $k>0$. We show that the nonlinear PDE is uniquely solvable and the solution of the PDE converges to that of the VI at the rate of order $O( \lambda^{-k/2})$. A fitted finite volume method is designed to solve the nonlinear PDE, and some numerical experiments are performed to illustrate the usefulness of this method.

K. Zhang, S. Wang, X. Q. Yang & K. L. Teo. (2020). A Power Penalty Approach to Numerical Solutions of Two-Asset American Options. Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications. 2 (2). 202-223. doi:
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