Convergence of numerical schemes for viscosity solutions to integro-differential degenerate parabolic problems arising in financial theory

Summary.We study the numerical approximation of viscosity solutions for integro-differential, possibly degenerate, parabolic problems. Similar models arise in option pricing, to generalize the celebrated Black–Scholes equation, when the processes which generate the underlying stock returns may contain both a continuous part and jumps. Convergence is proven for monotone schemes and numerical tests are presented and discussed.

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