Option Pricing Model with Transaction Costs and Jumps in Illiquid Markets ()
1. Introduction
Derivatives are financial instruments that give the right to buy or sell an underlying asset in the future. These contacts, such as future, forward, swap and option, were used for speculating and managing risks in an investment. For an option, it is a financial contract that gives option holders the right to buy or sell an underlying asset from option writers by a specified date and price. The contract, giving option holders the right to buy an underlying asset, is called a call option while the contract that gives option holders the right to sell an underlying asset is called a put option.
In 1973, Fischer Black and Myron Scholes [1] constructed the Black-Scholes model for determining prices of options. However, their model required various assumptions such as constant volatility, no transaction costs and perfect liquidity. However, purchasing on some stocks may be illiquid. Also, random jumps of prices of some underlying assets have occurred. With these reasons, the Black-Scholes assumptions may not fulfill the real financial market situations. Therefore, many researchers tried to extend the result of Black and Scholes by reducing some of the above assumptions (see, [2] [3] and [4] ).
In illiquid market, the investor’s trading in the stock market affects the stock price. This impact is called a price impact. The price impact is referred to the correlation between trading and subsequent price change. This may be a result from a bid trader who is able to move the price by his/her actions.
In 2005, Hong Liu and Jiongmin Yong [5] examined the effects of price impact in an illiquid market in replicating a European option. They investigated a generalized Black-Scholes pricing model in illiquid market. Moreover, the presence of the price impact has been studied and analysed in several researches. For example, Kristoffer Glover, Peter Duck, and David Newton [6] consider the effects of illiquidity on the Black-Scholes model. Traian Pirvu and Ahmadreza Yazdanian [7] investigated the effects of price impact in imperfect liquidity on the replication of a European Spread option.
In 2013, Youssef El-Khatib and Abdulnasser Hatemi-J [8] applied a jump diffusion model to price process in Liu and Yong [5] and provided the Black-Scholes model in illiquid with Jump. Then, in 2016, Francis Agana, Oluwole D. Makinde and David M. Theuri [9] studied the combined effects of transaction costs and large trading in illiquid markets on options pricing model. They derived a generalized and nonlinear Black-Scholes model in an illiquid financial market with transaction costs. However, none of the previous research is studied under the situation of existing transaction costs and jumps associated with illiquid markets.
In this paper, we combined the idea of [8] and [9] by introducing a differential form of an asset price process related to transaction costs and jump diffusion term in an illiquid market. Also, we provide a European option pricing model with transaction costs and jumps in illiquid markets. This model extends results in [1] [5] [8] and [9] by reducing more assumptions. Moreover, numerical simulations of an option price are shown by using the Monte Carlo simulation.
The contents of this research are organized into four sections. In Section 2, the differential form of assets price with transaction costs and jumps in illiquid markets is introduced. Also, an asset price process is investigated and a simulation example of option price is given in this section. In Section 3, a model of option pricing associated to the propose differential form is provided. Finally, concluding remarks are given in Section 4.
2. Differential Form of Assets Price with Transaction Costs and Jumps in Illiquid Market
In this section, we introduce the differential form of assets price with transactions costs and jumps for illiquid market. We consider a financial market having two types of assets; a risk-free asset and a risky asset. For
, let
and
be risk-free asset and risky asset prices at time t, respectively,
be the time to maturity date, K be strike price and
be the pay-off at time T. In 1973, Fischer Black and Myron Scholes [1] constructed the Black-Scholes model for option pricing. They assumed that the price of risk-free asset follows
(1)
where r is the risk-free interest rate and assumed that the price of risky asset satisfies
(2)
where
and
are the constant drift and constant volatility, respectively,
is a standard one-dimensional Brownian motion. In 2005, Hong Liu and Jiongmin Yong [5] extended the result of Black and Scholes [1]. They derived a generalized Black-Scholes pricing model in illiquid market. In [5], Hong Liu and Jiongmin Yong assumed that the price of risk-free asset and the price of risky asset follow
and (3)
(4)
where
is the interest rate, the drift and the volatility, respectively, depending on time t and
,
is price impact function of the trader (non-negative) and
is the number of shares. They also assumed that
(5)
where
and
are adapted process to a filtration
generated by the Brownian motion. After that, in 2013, Youssef El-Khatib and Abdulnasser Hatemi-J [8] applied a jump diffusion model to price process in Liu and Yong model [5]. The price of risky asset is assumed as
(6)
where a is a real constant and
is the compensated Poisson process where
is a Poisson process with deterministic intensity
. They assumed further that
(7)
where b is a real constant. In 2016, Francis Agana and etal. [9] added the term of transaction costs to price process in Liu and Yong model [5]. They assumed that the price of risky asset satisfies
(8)
where
is the transaction costs. In this work, we combined the idea of [8] and [9] to construct a model of option pricing. We assume that the price of the risky asset is generated by the following stochastic differential equation:
(9)
and
satisfies
(10)
Thus, by (9) and (10), the price process of the risky asset satisfies the following differential form:
(11)
In solving Equation (11), we apply the Ito lemma in [8] with
. We obtain
(12)
The Poisson integral in (12) can be computed in terms of the waiting times
. Thus, we have
(13)
where
, that is the Poisson process has a jump at time t. Hence, the asset price
at time t is given by
(14)
Next, a Monte Carlo simulation for a call option price is presented. This computation is obtained as a special case when the coefficients
and
are constants. By Equation (14), the stock price at maturity date T can be simplified as
(15)
and the price of a call option with strike price K at maturity date T is computed as
(16)
If we set
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
and
, the simulation results are shown below. In Figure 1, a Monte Carlo simulation result of asset price followed the Equation (15) with
, the number of time steps
and the number of realizations
is shown. The average of the asset price from the simulation result is depicted in Figure 2. In Figure 3, a call option price in Equation (16) is simulated.
Figure 1. The simulation of the asset price.
Figure 2. The average of the asset price.
Figure 3. The simulation of European call option price.
It can be seen form the above figures that there are wide ranges of values in a number of paths being result form jumps, transaction costs and price impacts. However, the average of the asset price lies between 39 and 41. Although the simulated price at expiration date is less than the strike price which is 44, the simulated option price is still positive due to the definition of pay-off. This can be explained that if an investor plans to buy and then hold an option, which an underlying asset price follows Equation (9), to its expiration date, the option fair price at current time is positive because of positive jumps of the underlying asset price.
3. Option Pricing Model with Transaction Costs and Jumps in Illiquid Markets
In this section, we construct a partial differential equation for option pricing by using a arbitrage pricing technique [10] consisting of the following steps:
1) Constructing a self-financing portfolio with the risk-free asset and the risky asset.
2) Providing a differential form of option price by applying Ito’s lemma to option price function depending on t and
.
3) Comparing the coefficients in the above differential form by using arbitrage pricing technique. This is, comparing the coefficients in random and non random parts in the replicating portfolio from step 1.
(Step 1) For
, let
is the wealth process and
is the number of units invested in the risk-free asset. The value of the portfolio
satisfies
(17)
Assume that the trading portfolio is self-financing. Then,
(18)
and we have the following Proposition.
Proposition 1. If the portfolio is self-financing, then the wealth process in (18) follows the stochastic differential equation:
(19)
Proof. By (3), (11), (17) and (18), we have
Therefore, the proposition is proved. □
The following theorem gives the partial differential equation for option pricing with transaction costs and jumps in illiquid markets. In this theorem, we combine the step 2 and step 3 in arbitrage pricing technique.
Theorem 2. Let
be the price of the European call option at time
and
satisfies the Equation (11). Then the partial differential equation of the option price is given by
(20)
with the terminal condition
.
Proof. (Step 2) Let
be the continuously differentiable functions. Assume that function
, that is the first derivative with respect to t and the first and second derivative respect to S of function f are exist and continuous. Also assumed that
be the price of a European option and the stock price
satisfies the Equation (11). By Ito lemma in [8] with
. We obtain the differential form of option price satisfies the following stochastic differential equation:
(21)
(Step 3) By arbitrage pricing technique, this implies that
. Thus, we can compare the coefficients for
in Equations (19) and (21), we have
If
, the above equation implies that
(22)
Similarly for the coefficient of
, we have
which implies that
(23)
Consider Equations (22) and (23), we can see that the
in Equation (22) has no jumping variable but that in Equation (23) depends on jump. Hence, by comparing the coefficients of
and
, we obtain the different values of the number of shares
. That is, we cannot find the number of shares
that lead to the value
. Thus, we consider an equation given by the term belonging to dt in (19) and (21). This gives the partial differential equation of the option price.
(24)
with the terminal condition
(25)
The theorem is proved. □
The theorem below shows the finding the number of shares
invested in risky asset in Equation (24).
Theorem 3. The number of shares
that minimizes the distance between the wealth
and the option price
is given by
(26)
Proof. Since we can not find the number of shares
directly. Therefore, in order to find the number of shares
invested in risky asset, we minimize the distance between the wealth
and the option price
at time T. So, we consider
(27)
Applying Ito integral to the wealth process
in (19), we have
(28)
Similarly for the option price
in (21), we get
(29)
By (28), (29) and (24), we have
By Ito isometry [11], we obtain
where
(30)
To find the critical point, we setting
, we obtain
(31)
By second derivative test, we obtain
(32)
thus, the function has a minimum at critical point. Hence, we have the Theorem.
□
Note from the above result that if there is no jump (i.e.
), we have
(33)
and the PDE of the option price in Equation (24) is reduced to the equation obtained in [9]. Similarly, If the no transaction cost assumption is assumed (i.e.
), the Equation (31) becomes
(34)
and the Equation (24) is reduced to a form as in [8]. The Black-Scholes model is obtained when
.
4. Conclusion
In this paper, a new differential form of assets price is introduced and a European option pricing model with transaction costs and jumps in an illiquid market is derived. This extends the assumptions of the Black-Scholes model by combining the jump-diffusion and existence of transaction costs in illiquid markets. This approach might be more realistic to the financial market.
Acknowledgements
The authors appreciate referee(s) for their helpful comments. The first authors would like to thank the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi for financial support.