AmericanOption-class

AmericanOption

A standard option contract allowing for early exercise at the choice of the option holder

Algorithms to price American and European
equity options, convertible bonds and a
variety of other financial derivatives. It uses an
extension of the usual Black-Scholes model in which
jump to default may occur at a probability specified
by a power-law link between stock price and hazard
rate as found in the paper by Takahashi, Kobayashi,
and Nakagawa (2001) <doi:10.3905/jfi.2001.319302>. We
use ideas and techniques from Andersen and
Buffum (2002) <doi:10.2139/ssrn.355308> and
Linetsky (2006) <doi:10.1111/j.1467-9965.2006.00271.x>.

Brian Boonstra

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Pricing Equity Derivatives with Extensions of Black-Scholes

AmericanOption-class function

<dl class="dl-horizontal">
<dt><code>optionality_fcn(v, ...)</code></dt><dd>Return a version of v at time t corrected for any optionality conditions.</dd></dl><dt><code>recovery_fcn(v, S, t, ...)</code></dt><dd>Return recovery value, given non-default values v at time t. Subclasses may be more elaborate, this method simply returns 0.0.</dd>

AmericanOption-class: A standard option contract allowing for early exercise at the choice of the option holder

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