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Stochastic mesh method for optimal stopping problems

  • Yuri Kashtanov ORCID logo EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: May 18, 2017

Abstract

A Monte Carlo method for solving the multi-dimensional optimal stopping problem is considered. Consistent estimators for a general jump-diffusion are pointed out. It is shown that the variance of estimators is inverse proportional to the number of points in each layer of the mesh.

MSC 2010: 65C05; 65C40

Award Identifier / Grant number: 17-01-00267

Funding statement: This work was supported by RFBR grant 17-01-00267.

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Received: 2017-2-12
Accepted: 2017-4-30
Published Online: 2017-5-18
Published in Print: 2017-6-1

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