ON PRICING EUROPEAN CALL OPTION 0N
EXPONENTIAL LÉVY MODEL WITH
JUMPS IN INTEREST RATE
Michael C. Anyanwu1, Georgina O. Kalu2 1,2Department of Mathematics
Michael Okpara University of Agriculture
Umudike, Abia State, NIGERIA
Abstract. This article presents a simple but efficient method for pricing European call option in exponential Lévy model when the interest rate is stochastic with jumps. We relax two assumptions in the Black and Scholes model: geometric Brownian motion for asset price and constant interest. The asset price is assumed to be given by a more general stochastic process, the Lévy process, and the interest rate in the market has stochastic paths with jumps. The resulting partial-integro differential equation(PIDE) for the option price is reduced to a system of first order partial differential equation, which is easier to solve. Hence, the option price and its sensitivities are easily obtained.
AMS Subject Classification: 60G51, 60J75, 91G20
Key Words and Phrases: option, call option, stochastic interest rate, exponential Lévy process
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DOI: 10.12732/ijam.v29i2.6
Volume: 29
Issue: 2
Year: 2016