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Titel des Moduls

 

Bewertung der Amerikanischen Optionen in Stochastischen Modellen der Finanzmärkten

 

 

in englischer Sprache

 

 

 

R

 

A

X

 

 

Vorlesung

Übung

 

Umfang

 

2

 

 

Inhalt

 

 

 

 

 

The pricing of derivative securities is one of the interesting and important problems in the mathematical theory of modern finance. A major part of the derivatives being traded at financial  markets are options of the so-called American type, which can be exercised by the holders at any time up to maturity. The natural mathematical problems arising by stochastic market modeling and related to this type of contracts are to seek for optimal stopping times, at which the holder should exercise the given contingent claims. The rational prices of such contracts are given by the values of the corresponding optimal stopping problems considered under some risk-neutral measures for the underlying risky asset price processes in the efficient market models. It is shown that the optimal stopping times in these problems are the first times when the underlying price processes come into the regions restricted by the exercise boundaries. The explicit expressions for the value functions and the boundaries are derived by means of reducing the initial optimal stopping problems to the equivalent free-boundary problems and then verifying the candidate solutions by using martingale methods. In the lecture, the problems of pricing of standard and several exotic American and more general game contingent claims in different stochastic models of financial markets will be considered.

 

 

 

Voraussetzungen

 

Stochastik I, II

 

Regelsemester

 

ab 6 Fachsemester

 

Abschluss

 

Prüfung

 

Prüfungszulassungsvor-aussetzung

Prüfung

 

Studienpunkte

 

4

 

R = Reine Mathematik

A = Angewandte Mathematik