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A stochastic control approach to no-arbitrage bounds given marginals, with an application to lookback options
We consider the problem of superhedging under volatility uncertainty for an
investor allowed to dynamically trade the underlying asset, and statically
trade European call options for all possible strikes with some given maturity.
This problem is classically approached by means of the Skorohod Embedding
Problem (SEP). Instead, we provide a dual formulation which converts the
superhedging problem into a continuous martingale optimal transportation
problem. We then show that this formulation allows us to recover previously
known results about lookback options. In particular, our methodology induces a
new proof of the optimality of Az\'{e}ma-Yor solution of the SEP for a certain
class of lookback options. Unlike the SEP technique, our approach applies to a
large class of exotics and is suitable for numerical approximation techniques.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AAP925 the Annals of
Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
The joint law of the extrema, final value and signature of a stopped random walk
A complete characterization of the possible joint distributions of the
maximum and terminal value of uniformly integrable martingale has been known
for some time, and the aim of this paper is to establish a similar
characterization for continuous martingales of the joint law of the minimum,
final value, and maximum, along with the direction of the final excursion. We
solve this problem completely for the discrete analogue, that of a simple
symmetric random walk stopped at some almost-surely finite stopping time. This
characterization leads to robust hedging strategies for derivatives whose value
depends on the maximum, minimum and final values of the underlying asset
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Exponential convergence for a convexifying equation
We consider an evolution equation similar to that introduced by Vese in [12] and whose solution converges in large time to the convex envelope of the initial datum. We give a stochastic control representation for the solution from which we deduce, under quite general assumptions that the convergence in the Lipschitz norm is in fact exponential in time
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