On the Snell envelope approach to optimal switching and pricing Bermudan options

This thesis consists of two papers related to systems of Snell envelopes. The first paper uses a system of Snell envelopes to formulate the problem of two-modes optimal switching for the full balance sheet in finite horizon. This means that the switching problem is formulated in terms of trade-off strategies between expected profit and cost yields, which act as obstacles to each other. Existenc…