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study the question what an investor can do who is unwilling to spend that much, and who is ready to use a hedging strategy … which succeeds with high probability. -- Hedging ; superhedging ; Neyman Pearson lemma ; stochastic volatility ; value at …
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An investor faced with a contingent claim may eliminate risk by (super-)hedging in a financial market. As this is often …-)hedge, depending on the accepted level of shortfall risk. -- risk management ; stochastic volatility ; shortfall risk ; Hedging …
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Daily returns of financial assets are frequently found to exhibit positive autocorrelation at lag 1. When specifying a linear AR(l) conditional mean, one may ask how this predictability affects option prices. We investigate the dependence of option prices on autoregressive dynamics under...
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Using option prices the expectations of the market participants concerning the underlying asset can be extracted as well as the uncertainty surrounding these expectations. In this paper a mixture of lognormal density functions will be assumed to analyze options on three-month Euribor futures for...
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analysis relies on the non-linear integration theory of such semimartingale families. The Itô-Wentzell formula is used to prove …
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This paper gives an overview of results and developments in the area of pricing and hedging contingent claims in an … mean-variance hedging, the variance-optimal martingale measure and the connections to closeness properties of spaces of … stochastic integrals. -- risk-minimization ; locally risk-minimizing ; mean-variance hedging ; minimal martingale measure …
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People dislike inflation because inflation erodes the real value of future nominal income and wealth. Adjustment of future nominal values via a cost of living index is an appropriate way to handle the problem of real income risk. Nonetheless an important aspect needs more discussion: If markets...
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currency basket, i.e. a linear combination of foreign currencies. In line with the mean-variance hedging approach, we determine …. The different estimators are compared with profit based criteria. -- exchange rates ; mean-variance hedging ; adaptive …
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This paper is devoted to the problem of hedging contingent claims in the framework of a complete two-factor jump … determine the unique hedging strategies which minimize a suitably defined shortfall risk under a given cost constraint. We … derive explicit formulas for this so-called efficient or quantile hedging strategy for a European call option. We then …
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