Analytic solution of a nonlinear Black-Scholes equation
Abstract
We study a nonlinear Black-Scholes partial differential equation
whose nonlinearity is as a result of transaction costs that lead to market illiq-
uidity. After reducing the equation into a nonlinear parabolic porous medium
type equation, we find that the assumption of a traveling wave profile to the
porous medium type equation reduces it further to ordinary differential equa-
tions. Solutions to all these transformed equations together with the use of
localizing boundary conditions facilitate a twice continuously differentiable so-
lution to the nonlinear Black-Scholes equation. We also find that the option
is always more volatile compared to the stock. All the risk parameters except
Gamma are negative throughout time t.
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