Serving the Quantitative Finance Community

Search found 2 matches

by VaRbarian
February 10th, 2012, 8:03 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Pricing of American options on dividend paying stocks through Montecarlo methods
Replies: 4
Views: 17087

Pricing of American options on dividend paying stocks through Montecarlo methods

<t>I got some articles giving a model that just decrease the dividend from the value of the stock. (As Darou says)But all the pricing formula derivation for american options that is used in Longstaff-Schwartz algorithm considers that the stock price is a geometric brownian motion without those disco...
by VaRbarian
February 5th, 2012, 9:56 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Pricing of American options on dividend paying stocks through Montecarlo methods
Replies: 4
Views: 17087

Pricing of American options on dividend paying stocks through Montecarlo methods

<t>Hi everybody, I am working on the implementation of the pricing of american options on discrete-dividend-paying stocks. Specifically applying Monte carlo methods.some time ago , I have already worked on the Longstaff Schwartz method; but it is applied to american options on non-paying dividends s...