In this paper, we price American-style Parisian down-and-in call options under the Black-Scholes framework. Usually, pricing an American-style option is much more difficult than pricing its European-style counterpart because of the appearance of the optimal exercise boundary in the former....

The behavior of the optimal exercise price of American puts near expiry has been well studied under the Black-Scholes model as a result of a series of publications. However, the behavior of the optimal exercise price under a stochastic volatility model, such as the Heston model, has not been...

This paper is an extension to a recent paper Zhu and Lian (2009), in which a closed-form exact solution was presented for the price of variance swaps with a particular definition of the realized variance. Here, we further demonstrate that our approach is quite versatile and can be used for other...

In this paper, we present a new approach with which American option price under a general regime-switching model with an arbitrary finite number of economic states can be efficiently computed without solving a system of $n$ differential equations simultaneously. Comparing with all the existing...