A New Efficient Numerical Method for Solving American Option under Regime Switching Model

[EN] A system of coupled free boundary problems describing American put option pricing under regime switching is considered. In order to build numerical solution firstly a front-fixing transformation is applied. Transformed problem is posed on multidimensional fixed domain and is solved by explicit finite difference method. The numerical scheme is conditionally stable and is consistent with the first order in time and second order in space. The proposed approach allows the computation not only of the option price but also of the optimal stopping boundary. Numerical examples demonstrate efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method. The results are compared with other known approaches to show its competitiveness.This work has been partially supported by the European Union in the FP7- PEOPLE-2012-ITN program under Grant Agreement Number 304617 (FP7 Marie Curie Action, Project Multi-ITN STRIKE-Novel Methods in Computational Finance) and the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad Spanish grant MTM2013-41765-P.Egorova, V.; Company Rossi, R.; Jódar Sánchez, LA. (2016). A New Efficient Numerical Method for Solving American Option under Regime Switching Model. Computers and Mathematics with Applications. 71:224-237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.camwa.2015.11.019S2242377