A PRIMAL-DUAL ALGORITHM FOR BSDES

作者:Bender Christian*; Schweizer Nikolaus; Zhuo Jia
来源:Mathematical Finance, 2017, 27(3): 866-901.
DOI:10.1111/mafi.12100

摘要

We generalize the primal-dual methodology, which is popular in the pricing of early-exercise options, to a backward dynamic programming equation associated with time discretization schemes of (reflected) backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs). Taking as an input some approximate solution of the backward dynamic program, which was precomputed, e.g., by least-squaresMonte Carlo, this methodology enables us to construct a confidence interval for the unknown true solution of the time-discretized (reflected) BSDE at time 0. We numerically demonstrate the practical applicability of our method in two 5-dimensional nonlinear pricing problems where tight price bounds were previously unavailable.

  • 出版日期2017-7