Predictable projections of conformal stochastic integrals: an application to Hermite series and to Widder's representation

In this article, we study predictable projections of stochastic integrals with respect to the conformal Brownian motion, extending the connection between powers of the conformal Brownian motion and the corresponding Hermite polynomials. As a consequence of this result, we then investigate the relation between analytic functions and $L^p$-convergent series of Hermite polynomials. Finally, our results are applied to Widder's representation for a class of Brownian martingales, retrieving a characterization for the moments of Widder's measure.Comment: 16 pages. Added keywords, MSC classification, contact informatio

Hedging under arbitrage

It is shown that delta hedging provides the optimal trading strategy in terms of minimal required initial capital to replicate a given terminal payoff in a continuous-time Markovian context. This holds true in market models where no equivalent local martingale measure exists but only a square-integrable market price of risk. A new probability measure is constructed, which takes the place of an equivalent local martingale measure. In order to ensure the existence of the delta hedge, sufficient conditions are derived for the necessary differentiability of expectations indexed over the initial market configuration. The recently often discussed phenomenon of "bubbles" is a special case of the setting in this paper. Several examples at the end illustrate the techniques described in this work.Comment: Minor changes, accepted for publication in Journal of Mathematical Financ

Surplus sharing with coherent utility functions

We use the theory of coherent measures to look at the problem of surplus sharing in an insurance business. The surplus share of an insured is calculated by the surplus premium in the contract. The theory of coherent risk measures and the resulting capital allocation gives a way to divide the surplus between the insured and the capital providers, i.e. the shareholders

Stability of the utility maximization problem with random endowment in incomplete markets

We perform a stability analysis for the utility maximization problem in a general semimartingale model where both liquid and illiquid assets (random endowments) are present. Small misspecifications of preferences (as modeled via expected utility), as well as views of the world or the market model (as modeled via subjective probabilities) are considered. Simple sufficient conditions are given for the problem to be well-posed, in the sense the optimal wealth and the marginal utility-based prices are continuous functionals of preferences and probabilistic views.Comment: 21 pages, revised version. To appear in "Mathematical Finance"