This supplemental appendix accompanies "Optimal Investment with Transaction Costs and Stochastic Volatility Part II: Finite Horizon" by the same authors, available at:"http://ssrn.com/abstract=2659918" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2659918. In this appendix we prove the verification theorem that the...

This paper considers the problem of European option pricing in the presence of proportional transaction costs when the price of the underlying follows a jump diffusion process. Using an approach that is based on maximization of the expected utility of terminal wealth, we transform the option...

Standard delta hedging fails to exactly replicate a European call option in the presence of transaction costs. We study a pricing and hedging model similar to the delta hedging strategy with an endogenous volatility parameter for the calculation of delta over time. The endogenous volatility...