In Longstaff and Schwartz (2001) a method for American option pricing using simulation and regression is suggested, and since then the method has rapidly gained importance. However, the idea of using regression and simulation for American option pricing was used at least as early as in Carriere...

The aim of this paper is to provide a new straightforward \textit{measure-free} methodology based on a convex hulls to determine the no-arbitrage pricing bounds of an option (European or American). The pedagogical interest of our methodology is also briefly discussed. The central result, which...

The duality between the robust (or equivalently, model independent) hedging of path dependent European options and a martingale optimal transport problem is proved. The financial market is modeled through a risky asset whose price is only assumed to be a continuous function of time. The hedging...

This article establishes the Poisson optional stopping times (POST) method by [22] as a near-universal method for solving liquidity-constrained American options, or, equivalently, penalised optimal-stopping problems. In this setup, the decision maker is permitted to "stop", i.e. exercise the...

Investors often control risk exposure by trading options. This article studies the optimal strategy for liquidating an option position. Under both complete and incomplete market settings, we quantify the value of optimally timing to liquidate, and identify the situations where it is optimal to...

In this paper, we introduce two methods to solve the American-style option pricing problem and its dual form at the same time using neural networks. Without applying nested Monte Carlo, the first method uses a series of neural networks to simultaneously compute both the lower and upper bounds of...

Acceptability pricing is formulated, for the dual problem, as a disciplined convex program solvable by the software CVXOPT. Forward starting options are used to illustrate the procedures for acceptability defined by positive expectation under the concave distortion minmaxvar. The measures used...

We consider a consumption-investment optimization problem for the Kabanov model when the proportional transaction costs rate is constant and the prices are modeled by a Lévy process. We naturally extend the preliminary work of [4] to portfolio processes that are only supposed to be làdlàg....

We present efficient partial differential equation (PDE) methods for continuous time mean-variance portfolio allocation problems when the underlying risky asset follows a jump-diffusion. The standard formulation of mean-variance optimal portfolio allocation problems, where the total wealth is...

Calibrating option pricing models to market prices often leads to optimisation problems to which standard methods (like such based on gradients) cannot be applied. We investigate two models: Heston's stochastic volatility model, and Bates's model which also includes jumps. We discuss how to...