Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Source: Risks
Authors: Luca Anzilli, Lucianna Cananà
Institutions: University of Salento, University of Bari Aldo Moro
Language: English
Subfield: Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,172
OpenAlex ID: W4411256681