AN EFFICIENT AND ACCURATE ADAPTIVE TIME-STEPPING METHOD FOR THE BLACK–SCHOLES EQUATIONS

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In this article, we propose an efficient and accurate adaptive time-stepping nu- merical method for the Black–Scholes (BS) equations. The numerical scheme used is the finite difference method (FDM). The proposed adaptive time-stepping computational scheme is based on the maximum norm of the discrete Laplacian values of option values on a discrete domain. Most numerical solvers for the BS equations require a small time step when there are large vari- ations in the solutions. To resolve this problem, we propose an adaptive time-stepping algorithm that uses a small time step size when the maximum norm of the discrete Laplacian values on a discrete domain is large; otherwise, a larger time step size is used to speed up the computation. To demonstrate the high performance of the proposed adaptive time-stepping methodology, we conduct several computational experiments. The numerical tests confirm that the proposed adaptive time-stepping method improves both the efficiency and accuracy of computations for the BS equations.

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