Pricing american call option by the Black-Scholes equation with a nonlinear volatility function

In this paper we analyze a nonlinear Black-Scholes equation for pricing American style call option in which the volatility may depend on the underlying asset price and the Gamma of the option. We study the generalized Black-Scholes equation by means of transformation of the free boundary problem (va...

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Main Author: Grossinho, Maria do Rosário (author)
Other Authors: Kord, Yaser Faghan (author), Ševčovič, Daniel (author)
Format: workingPaper
Language:eng
Published: 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/15991
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:www.repository.utl.pt:10400.5/15991