American Option pricing under Mutiscale Model using Monte Carlo and Least-Square approach

Sammanfattning:    In the finance world, option pricing techniques have become an appealing topic among researchers, especially for pricing American options. Valuing this option involves more factors than pricing the European style one, which makes it more computationally challenging. This is mainly because the holder of American options has the right to exercise at any time up to maturity. There are several approaches that have been proved to be efficient and applicable for maximizing the price of this type of options. A common approach is the Least squares method proposed by Longstaff and Schwartz. The purpose of this thesis is to discuss and analyze the implementation of this approach under the Multiscale Stochastic Volatility model. Since most financial markets show randomly variety of volatility, pricing the option under this model is considered necessary. A numerical study is performed to present that the Least-squares approach is indeed effective and accurate for pricing American options.