SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol.48, No.3, 1353-1376, 2009
AMERICAN OPTIONS IN REGIME-SWITCHING MODELS
The pricing problem for American options in Markov-modulated Levy models is solved. The early exercise boundaries and prices are calculated using a generalization of Carr's randomization procedure for regime-switching models. The pricing procedure is efficient even if the number of states is large, provided the transition rates are not large w.r.t. the riskless rates. The payoffs and riskless rates may depend on a state. Special cases are stochastic volatility models and models with stochastic interest rate; both must be modeled as finite-state Markov chains.
Keywords:optimal stopping;American options;regime switching;Levy processes;stochastic volatility models;stochastic interest rate models