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Bottleneck options

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In the spirit of Kyprianou and Ott (in Acta Appl. Math., to appear, 2013 ) and Ott (in Ann. Appl. Probab. 23:2327–2356, 2013 ) we consider an option whose payoff corresponds to a capped American lookback option with floating strike and solve the associated pricing problem (an optimal stopping problem) in a financial market whose price process is modelled by an exponential spectrally negative Lévy process. Despite the simple interpretation of the cap as a moderation of the payoff, it turns out that the optimal strategy to exercise the option looks very different compared to the situation without a cap. In fact, we show that the continuation region has a feature that resembles a bottleneck and hence the name “bottleneck option”. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

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  • Curdin Ott, 2014. "Bottleneck options," Finance and Stochastics, Springer, vol. 18(4), pages 845-872, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:finsto:v:18:y:2014:i:4:p:845-872
    DOI: 10.1007/s00780-013-0222-7
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    1. Neofytos Rodosthenous & Mihail Zervos, 2017. "Watermark options," Finance and Stochastics, Springer, vol. 21(1), pages 157-186, January.

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    Keywords

    Bottleneck option; Optimal stopping; Principle of smooth and continuous fit; Lévy processes; Scale functions; 60G40; 60G51; 60J75; G13;
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    JEL classification:

    • G13 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing

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