The value of a contingent claim under a jump-diffusion process satisfies a partial integro-differential equation (PIDE). We localize and discretize this PIDE in space by the central difference formula and in time by the second order backward differentiation formula. The resulting system Tnx = b...

In the Black-Scholes-Merton model, as well as in more general stochastic models in finance, the price of an American option solves a parabolic variational inequality. When the variational inequality is discretized, one obtains a linear complementarity problem that must be solved at each time...