24 research outputs found
Minimal Supersolutions of BSDEs with Lower Semicontinuous Generators
We study the existence and uniqueness of minimal supersolutions of backward
stochastic differential equations with generators that are jointly lower
semicontinuous, bounded below by an affine function of the control variable and
satisfy a specific normalization property
Minimal supersolutions of convex BSDEs
We study the nonlinear operator of mapping the terminal value to the
corresponding minimal supersolution of a backward stochastic differential
equation with the generator being monotone in , convex in , jointly lower
semicontinuous and bounded below by an affine function of the control variable
. We show existence, uniqueness, monotone convergence, Fatou's lemma and
lower semicontinuity of this operator. We provide a comparison principle for
minimal supersolutions of BSDEs.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AOP834 the Annals of
Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Minimal Supersolutions of Convex BSDEs under Constraints
We study supersolutions of a backward stochastic differential equation, the
control processes of which are constrained to be continuous semimartingales of
the form . The generator may depend on the
decomposition and is assumed to be positive, jointly
convex and lower semicontinuous, and to satisfy a superquadratic growth
condition in and . We prove the existence of a
supersolution that is minimal at time zero and derive stability properties of
the non-linear operator that maps terminal conditions to the time zero value of
this minimal supersolution such as monotone convergence, Fatou's lemma and
-lower semicontinuity. Furthermore, we provide duality results within the
present framework and thereby give conditions for the existence of solutions
under constraints.Comment: 23 page
Futures Cross-Hedging with a Stationary Basis
This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.When managing risk, frequently only imperfect hedging instruments are at hand. We show how to optimally cross-hedge risk when the spread between the hedging instrument and the risk is stationary. For linear risk positions we derive explicit formulas for the hedge error, and for nonlinear positions we show how to obtain numerically efficient estimates. Finally, we demonstrate that even in cases with no clear-cut decision concerning the stationarity of the spread, it is better to allow for mean reversion of the spread rather than to neglect it.Peer Reviewe
Introduction: Nietzsche's Life and Works
An introduction to Nietzsche's life and works
Nietzsche's Ethics of Affirmation
This chapter looks at Nietzsche's notion of the affirmation of life. It begins with the origins of the concept in Schopenhauer and in the Schopenhauerian philosophy known to Nietzsche. It then examines affirmation in three phases of Nietzsche's writing: early, middle and late. It relates affirmation to other key Nietzschean concepts like the Apollonian and the Dionysian, eternal recurrence, amor fati and will to power