Perpetual American Standard and Lookback Options in Insider Models with Progressively Enlarged Filtrations

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author Gapeev, Pavel V.
Li, Libo
author_facet Gapeev, Pavel V.
Li, Libo
contents We derive closed-form solutions to the optimal stopping problems related to the pricing of perpetual American standard and lookback put and call options in the extensions of the Black-Merton-Scholes model with progressively enlarged filtrations. More specifically, the information available to the insider is modelled by Brownian filtrations progressively enlarged with the times of either the global maximum or minimum of the underlying risky asset price over the infinite time interval, which is not a stopping time in the filtration generated by the underlying risky asset. We show that the optimal exercise times are the first times at which the asset price process reaches either lower or upper stochastic boundaries depending on the current values of its running maximum or minimum given the occurrence of times of either the global maximum or minimum, respectively. The proof is based on the reduction of the original problems into the necessarily three-dimensional optimal stopping problems and the equivalent free-boundary problems. We apply either the normal-reflection or the normal-entrance conditions as well as the smooth-fit conditions for the value functions to characterise the candidate boundaries as either the maximal or minimal solutions to the associated first-order nonlinear ordinary differential equations and the transcendental arithmetic equations, respectively.
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spellingShingle Perpetual American Standard and Lookback Options in Insider Models with Progressively Enlarged Filtrations
Gapeev, Pavel V.
Li, Libo
Mathematical Finance
Pricing of Securities
91B25, 60G40, 60G44
We derive closed-form solutions to the optimal stopping problems related to the pricing of perpetual American standard and lookback put and call options in the extensions of the Black-Merton-Scholes model with progressively enlarged filtrations. More specifically, the information available to the insider is modelled by Brownian filtrations progressively enlarged with the times of either the global maximum or minimum of the underlying risky asset price over the infinite time interval, which is not a stopping time in the filtration generated by the underlying risky asset. We show that the optimal exercise times are the first times at which the asset price process reaches either lower or upper stochastic boundaries depending on the current values of its running maximum or minimum given the occurrence of times of either the global maximum or minimum, respectively. The proof is based on the reduction of the original problems into the necessarily three-dimensional optimal stopping problems and the equivalent free-boundary problems. We apply either the normal-reflection or the normal-entrance conditions as well as the smooth-fit conditions for the value functions to characterise the candidate boundaries as either the maximal or minimal solutions to the associated first-order nonlinear ordinary differential equations and the transcendental arithmetic equations, respectively.
title Perpetual American Standard and Lookback Options in Insider Models with Progressively Enlarged Filtrations
topic Mathematical Finance
Pricing of Securities
91B25, 60G40, 60G44
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03470