I got an American put option, where the payoff is and is the price of an underlying at the stopping time . The underlying follows a standard GBM with ; is given. I need to calculate the expectation under the assumption that has exponential distribution with intensity . I tried transforming this equation into: but then I'm just completely lost with how to proceed with the square root. I know that by definition but can I use this as an answer? As in, can I claim that:
American put option. Exercise time is a random variable, calculation of expected payoff
Makina

