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Regularity of the Optimal Stopping Problem for Jump Diffusions
The value function of an optimal stopping problem for jump diffusions is
known to be a generalized solution of a variational inequality. Assuming that
the diffusion component of the process is nondegenerate and a mild assumption
on the singularity of the L\'{e}vy measure, this paper shows that the value
function of this optimal stopping problem on an unbounded domain with
finite/infinite variation jumps is in with . As a consequence, the smooth-fit property holds.Comment: To Appear in the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimizatio
Analysis of the optimal exercise boundary of American options for jump diffusions
In this paper we show that the optimal exercise boundary/free boundary of the American put option pricing problem for jump diffusions is continuously differentiable (except at maturity). This differentiability result was established by Yang, Jiang, and Bian [European J. Appl. Math., 17 (2006), pp. 95β127] in the case where the condition is satisfied. We extend the result to the case where the condition fails using a unified approach that treats both cases simultaneously. We also show that the boundary is infinitely differentiable under a regularity assumption on the jump distribution