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SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol.48, No.3, 1229-1250, 2009
VALUATION OF STOCK LOANS WITH REGIME SWITCHING
This paper is concerned with stock loan valuation in which the underlying stock price is dictated by geometric Brownian motion with regime switching. The stock loan pricing is quite different from that for standard American options because the associated variational inequalities may have infinitely many solutions. In addition, the optimal stopping time equals infinity with positive probability. Variational inequalities are used to establish values of stock loans and reasonable values of critical parameters such as loan sizes, loan rates, and service fees in terms of certain algebraic equations. Numerical examples are included to illustrate the results.