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...

Pricing different types of derivative contracts to minimize risk is a significant step for business sustainability. Whaley (2006) refers that for the European Puts and Calls, known as vanilla options, there is a closed form solution that delivers the 'fair' price of the option with respect to...

As is known, an option price is a solution to a certain partial differential equation (PDE) with terminal conditions (payoff functions). There is a close association between the solution of PDE and the solution of a backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE). We can either solve the PDE to...

In this paper, European put option pricing with stochastic volatility forecasted by well known GARCH model is discussed in context of Indian financial market. The data of Reliance Ltd. stock price from 3/01/2000 to 30/03/2009 is used and resulting partial differential equation is solved by...