PRICING VULNERABLE AMERICAN PUT OPTIONS UNDER JUMP–DIFFUSION PROCESSES

Abstract

This paper evaluates vulnerable American put options under jump–diffusion assumptions on the underlying asset and the assets of the counterparty. Sudden shocks on the asset prices are described as a compound Poisson process. Analytical pricing formulae of vulnerable European put options and vulnerable twice-exercisable European put options are derived. Employing the two-point Geske and Johnson method, we derive an approximate analytical pricing formula of vulnerable American put options under jump–diffusions. Numerical simulations are performed for investigating the impacts of jumps and default risk on option prices.