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Pricing European and American Options under Heston Model using Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Elements
This paper deals with pricing of European and American options, when the
underlying asset price follows Heston model, via the interior penalty
discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (dGFEM). The advantages of dGFEM
space discretization with Rannacher smoothing as time integrator with nonsmooth
initial and boundary conditions are illustrated for European vanilla options,
digital call and American put options. The convection dominated Heston model
for vanishing volatility is efficiently solved utilizing the adaptive dGFEM.
For fast solution of the linear complementary problem of the American options,
a projected successive over relaxation (PSOR) method is developed with the norm
preconditioned dGFEM. We show the efficiency and accuracy of dGFEM for option
pricing by conducting comparison analysis with other methods and numerical
experiments
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