A Call-Put Duality for Perpetual American Options

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Authors: Aurélien Alfonsi, Benjamin Jourdain 

Publication date: 21 December 2006

Abstract: It is well known that in models with time-homogeneous local volatility functions and constant interest and dividend rates, the European Put prices are transformed into European Call prices by the simultaneous exchanges of the interest and dividend rates and of the strike and spot price of the underlying. This paper investigates such a Call Put duality for perpetual American options. It turns out that the perpetual American Put price is equal to the perpetual American Call price in a model where, in addition to the previous exchanges between the spot price and the strike and between the interest and dividend rates, the local volatility function is modified. We prove that equality of the dual volatility functions only holds in the standard Black-Scholes model with constant volatility. Thanks to these duality results, we design a theoretical calibration procedure of the local volatility function from the perpetual Call and Put prices for a fixed spot price $x_0$. The knowledge of the Put (resp. Call) prices for all strikes enables to recover the local volatility function on the interval $(0,x_0)$ (resp. $(x_0,+infty)$).

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