Report on "American Option Pricing and Hedging Strategies"

2007/11/27 by Zhang, Jinshan
#Computational Engineering #Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Finance #G.3 #and Science (cs.CE)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0711.4324

Abstract

This paper mainly discusses the American option's hedging strategies via binomialmodel and the basic idea of pricing and hedging American option. Although the essential scheme of hedging is almost the same as European option, small differences may arise when simulating the process for American option holder has more rights, spelling that the option can be exercised at anytime before its maturity. Our method is dynamic-hedging method.

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