Abstract

We give an explicit solution to the perpetual American capped power put option pricing problem in the BlackScholes-Merton Model. The approach is mainly based on free-boundary formulation and verification. For completeness we also give an explicit solution to the perpetual American standard power (_ 1) option pricing problem.

Highlights

  • A standard American power put option is a financial contract that allows the holder to sell an asset for a prescribed amount at any time

  • For the perpetual American power (≥ 1) put option, for completeness, we give the value of this option and the optimal stopping time

  • For the perpetual American capped power put option, we give the value of this option and the optimal stopping time

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Introduction

A standard American power put option is a financial contract that allows the holder to sell an asset for a prescribed amount at any time. The case of power being one corresponds to the usual American put option [1]. For the European power put option, the value of this option is given [2,3,4]. For the perpetual American power (≥ 1) put option, for completeness, we give the value of this option and the optimal stopping time.

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