Pricing American Contingent Claims with Frictions

The paper addresses the problem of pricing American Contingent Claims (ACCs) under constraints on portfolio choice and a higher interest rate for borrowing than for lending. In this paper, the formulae of the upper hedging price h_\textup(K) and the lower hedging price h_\textlow(K) of an ACC is derived by introducing a family of auxiliary frictionless financial markets. Furthermore, the arbitrage-free interval h_\textlow(K),h_\textup(K) is identified, based on the principle of absence of arbitrage. In the end, for several concrete constraints on portfolio, explicit computations or estimations of the upper hedging price and the lower hedging price are carried out in the case of American call-option.