Analytic solution of a nonlinear black-scholes partial differential equation
Publication Date
5/10/2010Author
Esekon, Joseph
Onyango, Silas
Ongati, Naftali O.
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Abstract/ Overview
We study a nonlinear Black-Scholes partial differential equation whose nonlinearity is as a result of a feedback effect. This is an illiquid market effect arising from transaction costs. An analytic solution to the nonlinear Black-Scholes equation via a solitary wave solution is currently unknown. After transforming the equation into a parabolic nonlinear porous medium equation, we find that the assumption of a traveling wave profile to the later equation reduces it to ordinary differential equations. This together with the use of localizing boundary conditions facilitate a twice continuously differentiable nontrivial analytic solution by integrating directly.
Subject/ Keywords
nonlinear black-scholes equation; option hedging; volatility; illiquid markets; transaction cost; analytic solution
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