Number of paths versus number of basis functions in American option pricing

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2005-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/math/0503556v1

Annals of Applied Probability 2004, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2090-2119

Mathematics

Probability

Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/105051604000000846 in the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by

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10.1214/105051604000000846

An American option grants the holder the right to select the time at which to exercise the option, so pricing an American option entails solving an optimal stopping problem. Difficulties in applying standard numerical methods to complex pricing problems have motivated the development of techniques that combine Monte Carlo simulation with dynamic programming. One class of methods approximates the option value at each time using a linear combination of basis functions, and combines Monte Carlo with backward induction to estimate optimal coefficients in each approximation. We analyze the convergence of such a method as both the number of basis functions and the number of simulated paths increase. We get explicit results when the basis functions are polynomials and the underlying process is either Brownian motion or geometric Brownian motion. We show that the number of paths required for worst-case convergence grows exponentially in the degree of the approximating polynomials in the case of Brownian motion and faster in the case of geometric Brownian motion.

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