Stability and convergence analysis of discretizations of the Black-Scholes PDE with the linear boundary condition

DOI10.1093/IMANUM/DRS050zbMATH Open1304.91246arXiv1208.5168OpenAlexW2063523958MaRDI QIDQ5398457FDOQ5398457

Kim Volders, Karel J. in 't Hout

Publication date: 28 February 2014

Published in: IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we consider the stability and convergence of numerical discretizations of the Black-Scholes partial differential equation (PDE) when complemented with the popular linear boundary condition. This condition states that the second derivative of the option value vanishes when the underlying asset price gets large and is often applied in the actual numerical solution of PDEs in finance. To our knowledge, the only theoretical stability result in the literature up to now pertinent to the linear boundary condition has been obtained by Windcliff, Forsyth and Vetzal (2004) who showed that for a common discretization a necessary eigenvalue condition for stability holds. In this paper, we shall present sufficient conditions for stability and convergence when the linear boundary condition is employed. We deal with finite difference discretizations in the spatial (asset) variable and a subsequent implicit discretization in time. As a main result we prove that even though the maximum norm of exp(tM) ($tge0$) can grow with the dimension of the semidiscrete matrix M, this generally does not impair the convergence behavior of the numerical discretizations. Our theoretical results are illustrated by ample numerical experiments.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5168

zbMATH Keywords

convergencestabilityBlack-Scholesfinite difference discretizationlinear boundary conditionspartial differential equations (PDE)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods (including Monte Carlo methods) (91G60) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12)

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• Accuracy, robustness, and efficiency of the linear boundary condition for the Black-Scholes equations
• An efficient variable step-size method for options pricing under jump-diffusion models with nonsmooth payoff function
• Analysis of the truncated error in solving the Black-Scholes equation

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