A Fast and Accurate FFT-Based Method for Pricing Early-Exercise Options Under Levy Processes

@article{Lord2007AFA,
  title={A Fast and Accurate FFT-Based Method for Pricing Early-Exercise Options Under Levy Processes},
  author={R. Lord and Fang Fang and F. Bervoets and Cornelis W. Oosterlee},
  journal={Risk Management eJournal},
  year={2007}
}
A fast and accurate method for pricing early exercise and certain exotic options in computational finance is presented. The method is based on a quadrature technique and relies heavily on Fourier transformations. The main idea is to reformulate the well-known risk-neutral valuation formula by recognising that it is a convolution. The resulting convolution is dealt with numerically by using the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). This novel pricing method, which we dub the Convolution method, CONV for… 
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