American options in a non-linear incomplete market model with default

We study the superhedging problem for American options with completely irregular payoffs in a non-linear and incomplete market model with default. We give a dual representation of the seller’s (superhedging) price in terms of the value of a non-linear mixed control/stopping problem, involving a suit...

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Veröffentlicht in:IDEAS Working Paper Series from RePEc 2021-12, Vol.142, p.479-512
Hauptverfasser: Grigorova, Miryana, Quenez, Marie-Claire, Sulem, Agnès
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We study the superhedging problem for American options with completely irregular payoffs in a non-linear and incomplete market model with default. We give a dual representation of the seller’s (superhedging) price in terms of the value of a non-linear mixed control/stopping problem, involving a suitable set of equivalent probability measures. We characterize the seller’s price process as the minimal supersolution of two types of reflected BSDEs: a constrained one and an optional one. Under some regularity assumptions on the pay-off, we show a duality result for the buyer’s price in terms of the value of a non-linear control/stopping game problem.
ISSN:0304-4149
1879-209X
DOI:10.1016/j.spa.2021.09.004