Evaluation of Perpetual American Put Options with General Payoff

In this paper, we study perpetual American put options with a generalized standard put payoff and establish sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of the solution to the associated pricing problem. As a key tool, we express the Black–Scholes operator in terms of elasticity. This form...

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Main Authors: Luca Anzilli, Lucianna Cananà
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-06-01
Series:Risks
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9091/13/6/112
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Summary:In this paper, we study perpetual American put options with a generalized standard put payoff and establish sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of the solution to the associated pricing problem. As a key tool, we express the Black–Scholes operator in terms of elasticity. This formulation enables us to demonstrate that the considered pricing problem admits a unique solution when the payoff function exhibits strictly decreasing elasticity with respect to the underlying asset. Furthermore, this approach allows us to derive closed-form solutions for option pricing.
ISSN:2227-9091