In this paper we propose a maximum entropy estimator for the asymptotic distribution of the hedging error for options … maximising Shannon's entropy subject to a set of moment constraints, which in turn yields the value-at-risk and expected … shortfall of the hedging error. The significance of this approach lies in the fact that the maximum entropy estimator allows us …

reliably characterize any random variable (in our case derivative) with just its first moment. • This lack of attention to …