American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

May  2020, 16(3): 1349-1368. doi: 10.3934/jimo.2019006

Pricing options on investment project contraction and ownership transfer using a finite volume scheme and an interior penalty method

 1 Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, WA 6845, Australia 2 School of Mathematical & Software Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Sichuan, China, 610000 3 Coordinated Innovation Center for Computable Modeling in Management Science, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics Tianjin 300222, China

Received  February 2018 Revised  September 2018 Published  March 2019

In this work we develop partial differential equation (PDE) based computational models for pricing real options to contract the production or to transfer part/all of the ownership of a project when the underlying asset price of the project satisfies a geometric Brownian motion. The developed models are similar to the Black-Scholes equation for valuing conventional European put options or the partial differential linear complementarity problem (LCP) for pricing American put options. A finite volume method is used for the discretization of the PDE models and a penalty approach is applied to the discretized LCP. We show that the coefficient matrix of the discretized systems is a positive-definite $M$-matrix which guarantees that the solution from the penalty equation converges to that of the discretized LCP. Numerical experiments, performed to demonstrate the usefulness of our methods, show that our models and numerical methods are able to produce financially meaningful numerical results for the two non-trivial test problems.

Citation: Nan Li, Song Wang, Shuhua Zhang. Pricing options on investment project contraction and ownership transfer using a finite volume scheme and an interior penalty method. Journal of Industrial & Management Optimization, 2020, 16 (3) : 1349-1368. doi: 10.3934/jimo.2019006
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The values of European and American contracting options when $\kappa = 0.5$ for Test 1
The difference between the values of the European and American contracting options for Test 1
The value of the option to abandon for Test 2
Computed $W - W^*$ and Greeks of $W$ when $\lambda = 0.5$ for Test 2
The American option value and its optimal exercise curve for $\lambda = 0.5$ for Test 2
Project, production and market data and functions used in Test 1
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