Option pricing plays an important role in financial,energy, and commodity markets. The Black-Scholes model is an indispensable framework for the option pricing. This thesis studies the pricing of a swing option under stochastic volatility. A swing option is an American-style contract with multiple exercise rights. As such, it is an optimal multiplestopping time problem. In this dissertation, we...

Electricity swing options are supply contracts for power, which give the owner the right to change the required delivery on short time notice. It gives more flexibility than fixed base load or peak load contracts. The name ”option” is a bit misleading, since it gives the owner multiple exercise rights at many different time horizons with exercise amounts on a continuous scale. We look at the pr...

The timing option embedded in a futures contract allows the short position to decide when to deliver the underlying asset during the last month of the contract period. In this paper we derive, within a very general incomplete market framework, an explicit model independent formula for the futures price process in the presence of a timing option. We also provide a characterization of the optimal...

The presale contract is a popular property selling method that allows a buyer to default on the remaining payment and/or a developer to abandon a project. Using a simple two-period game theoretical model, we derive a closed-form pricing equation for a presale contract that explicitly accounts for a developer’s abandonment option and a buyer’s default option. Although a developer has an abandonm...