Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4628672 | Applied Mathematics and Computation | 2013 | 15 Pages |
Abstract
Stock loans are collateral loans with stocks used as the collateral. This paper is concerned with a stock loan valuation problem in which the underlying stock price is modeled as an exponential phase-type Lévy model. The valuation problem is formulated as the optimal stopping problem of a perpetual American option with a time-varying exercise price. When a transformation is applied to the perpetual American option, it becomes a perpetual American call option in an economy with a negative interest rate, thus causing standard Wiener-Hopf techniques to fail. We solve this optimal stopping problem using a variational inequality approach.
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Authors
Tat Wing Wong, Hoi Ying Wong,