Numerical Stability Analysis of the Euler Scheme for BSDEs.

Summary In this paper, we study the qualitative behaviour of approximation schemes for Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (BSDEs) by introducing a new notion of numerical stability. For the Euler scheme, we provide sufficient conditions in the one-dimensional and multidimensional case to guarantee the numerical stability. We then perform a classical Von Neumann stability analysis in the case of a linear driver $f$ and exhibit necessary conditions to get stability in this case. Finally, we illustrate our results with numerical applications.