Abstract
Following Baurdoux and Kyprianou (2008) we consider the McKean stochastic game, a game version of the McKean optimal stopping problem (American put), driven by a spectrally negative Levy process. We improve their characterisation of a saddle point for this game when the driving process has a Gaussian component and negative jumps. In particular, we show that the exercise region of the minimiser consists of a singleton when the penalty parameter is larger than some threshold and 'thickens' to a full interval when the penalty parameter drops below this threshold. Expressions in terms of scale functions for the general case and in terms of polynomials for a specific jump diffusion case are provided.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 200-216 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Journal of Applied Probability |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2011 |
Keywords
- optimal stopping
- stochastic game
- fluctuation theory
- Levy process