In this work, we consider optimal stopping problems with model uncertainty incorporated into the formulation of the underlying objective function. Typically, the robust, efficient hedging of American options in incomplete markets may be described as optimal stopping of such kind. Based on a generalisation of the additive dual representation of Rogers (Math. Financ. 12:271–286, 2002) to the case of optimal stopping under model uncertainty, we develop a novel regression-based Monte Carlo algorithm for the approximation of the corresponding value function. The algorithm involves optimising a penalised empirical dual objective functional over a class of martingales. This formulation allows us to construct upper bounds for the optimal value with reduced complexity. Finally, we carry out a convergence analysis of the proposed algorithm and illustrate its performance by several numerical examples.
In this paper we give sufficient conditions guaranteeing the validity of the well-known minimax theorem for the lower Snell envelope with respect to a family of absolutely continuous probability measures. Such minimax results play an important role in the characterisation of arbitrage-free prices of American contingent claims in incomplete markets. Our conditions do not rely on the notions of stability under pasting or time-consistency and reveal some unexpected connection between the minimax result and the path properties of the corresponding density process.
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