Far-from-expiry behavior of the American put option on a dividend-paying asset
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Abstract:
We provide a rigorous proof of sharp estimates for the long time behavior of the early exercise boundary and the price for an American put option on a dividend-paying asset that follows a geometric Brownian motion.References
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Additional Information
- Xinfu Chen
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
- MR Author ID: 261335
- Huibin Cheng
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
- John Chadam
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
- Received by editor(s): June 1, 2009
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: December 22, 2009, and March 3, 2010
- Published electronically: July 12, 2010
- Additional Notes: The first author acknowledges support from NSF grant DMS-0504691.
The second and third authors acknowledge support from NSF grant DMS-0707953.
The authors would like to thank the referees for their comments, which have improved the presentation of the results. - Communicated by: Walter Craig
- © Copyright 2010
American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 139 (2011), 273-282
- MSC (2010): Primary 35R35, 91G20, 91G80
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2010-10516-6
- MathSciNet review: 2729089