Abstract
We derive the explicit price of the perpetual American put option canceled at the last-passage time of the underlying above some fixed level. We assume that the asset process is governed by a geometric spectrally negative Lévy process. We show that the optimal exercise time is the first moment when the asset price process drops below an optimal threshold. We perform numerical analysis considering classical Black–Scholes models and the model where the logarithm of the asset price has additional exponential downward shocks. The proof is based on some martingale arguments and the fluctuation theory of Lévy processes.
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