A comparison principle for an American option on several assets: Index and spread options

Using the method of symmetrization, we compare the price of the American option on an index or spread to that of the solution of a parabolic variational inequality in one spatial variable. This comparison principle is established for a broad class of diffusion operators with time and state dependent...

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Main Authors: Peter Laurence, Edward Stredulinsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Texas State University 2003-07-01
Series:Electronic Journal of Differential Equations
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Online Access:http://ejde.math.txstate.edu/Volumes/2003/74/abstr.html