Option Pricing under Delay Geometric Brownian Motion with Regime Switching

Abstract

We investigate the option pricing problem when the price dynamics of the underlying risky assets are driven by delay geometric Brownian motions with regime switching. That is, the market interest rate, the appreciation rate and the volatility of the risky assets depend on the past stock prices and the unobservable states of the economy which are modulated by a continuous-time Markov chain. The market described by the model is incomplete, the martingale measure is not unique and the Esscher transform is employed to determine an equivalent martingale measure. We proved the model has a unique positive solution and the price of the contingent claims under the model can be computable numerically if not analytically.