Pricing American drawdown options under Markov models

X Zhang, L Li, G Zhang - European Journal of Operational Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The drawdown in the price of an asset shows how much the price falls relative to its
historical maximum. This paper considers the pricing problem of perpetual American style …

Optimal Stopping Methods for Investment Decisions: A Literature Review

Z Liu, Y Mu - International Journal of Financial Studies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Investors decide the best time to take a given action by maximizing their utility function while
taking into account current information and the underlying process in the optimal stopping …

Optimal stopping problems for maxima and minima in models with asymmetric information

PV Gapeev, L Li - Stochastics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
We derive closed-form solutions to optimal stopping problems related to the pricing of
perpetual American withdrawable standard and lookback put and call options in an …

Optimal double stopping problems for maxima and minima of geometric Brownian motions

PV Gapeev, PM Kort, MN Lavrutich… - … and Computing in Applied …, 2022 - Springer
We present closed-form solutions to some double optimal stopping problems with payoffs
representing linear functions of the running maxima and minima of a geometric Brownian …

Perpetual American standard and lookback options with event risk and asymmetric information

PV Gapeev, L Li - SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics, 2022 - SIAM
We derive closed-form solutions to the perpetual American standard and floating-strike
lookback put and call options in an extension of the Black--Merton--Scholes model with …

Discounted optimal stopping problems for maxima of geometric Brownian motions with switching payoffs

PV Gapeev, PM Kort, MN Lavrutich - Advances in Applied Probability, 2021 - cambridge.org
We present closed-form solutions to some discounted optimal stopping problems for the
running maximum of a geometric Brownian motion with payoffs switching according to the …

Discounted optimal stopping problems in first-passage time models with random thresholds

PV Gapeev, H Al Motairi - Journal of Applied Probability, 2022 - cambridge.org
We derive closed-form solutions to some discounted optimal stopping problems related to
the perpetual American cancellable dividend-paying put and call option pricing problems in …

Perpetual American double lookback options on drawdowns and drawups with floating strikes

PV Gapeev - Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 2022 - Springer
We present closed-form solutions to the problems of pricing of the perpetual American
double lookback put and call options on the maximum drawdown and the maximum drawup …

Optimal stopping problems for running minima with positive discounting rates

PV Gapeev - Statistics & Probability Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
We present analytic solutions to some optimal stopping problems for the running minimum of
a geometric Brownian motion with exponential positive discounting rates. The proof is based …

A variation of the Azéma martingale and drawdown options

A Dassios, JW Lim - Mathematical Finance, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we derive a variation of the Azéma martingale using two approaches—a direct
probabilistic method and another by projecting the Kennedy martingale onto the filtration …