Following the increasing awareness of the risk from volatility fluctuations, the market for hedging contracts written on realized volatility has surged. Companies looking for means to secure against unexpected accumulation of market activity can find over-the-counter products written on...

The academic interest in utility indifference based approaches to derivative pricing in incomplete markets has grown during the last decades. In lack of arbitrage arguments the fair price of an option can be found through the value function of two optional investment choices, one where an option...