Abstract
In this article we study the price of an American style option based on hedging the underlying assets in discrete time. Like its European style analog, the value of the option is not given in general by an expectation with respect to an equivalent martingale measure. We provide the optimal solution that minimizes the hedging error variance. When the assets dynamics are Markovian or a component of a Markov process, the solution can be approximated easily by numerical methods already proposed for pricing American options. We proceed to a Monte Carlo experiment in which the hedging performance of the solution is evaluated. For assets returns that are either Gaussian or Variance Gamma, it is shown that the proposed solution results in lower root mean square hedging error than with traditional delta hedging.
MSC: 91G60, 91G20.
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Rémillard, B., Hocquard, A., Langlois, H., Papageorgiou, N. (2012). Optimal Hedging of American Options in Discrete Time. In: Carmona, R., Del Moral, P., Hu, P., Oudjane, N. (eds) Numerical Methods in Finance. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics, vol 12. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25746-9_5
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