We study a stochastic game where one player tries to find a strategy such that the state process reaches a target of controlled-loss-type, no matter which action is chosen by the other player. We provide, in a general setup, a relaxed geometric dynamic programming principle for this problem and...

The aim of this thesis is to investigate some solutions to the pricing of contingent claims in incomplete markets. We first consider the stochastic targetintroduced by Soner and Touzi (2002) for the general super-replication problem, and extended by Bouchard, Elie and Touzi (2009) in order to...

We consider a multivariate financial market with proportional transaction costs as in Kabanov (1999). We study the problem of contingent claim pricing via utility maximization as in Hodges and Neuberger (1989). Using an exponential utility function, we derive a closed form characterization for...

The aim of this paper is to discuss efficient algorithms for the pricing of American options by two recently proposed Monte-Carlo type methods, namely the Malliavian calculus and the regression based approaches. We explain how both technics can be exploded with improved complexity and...

We consider a financial market with costs as in Kabanov and Last (1999). Given a utility function defined on ${\mathbb R}$, we analyze the problem of maximizing the expected utility of the liquidation value of terminal wealth diminished by some random claim. We prove that, under the Reasonable...

We consider a multi-asset continuous-time model of a financial market with transaction costs and prove that, for a strongly risk-averse investor, the reservation price of a contingent claim approaches the super-replication price increased by the liquidation value of the initial endowment.

Given a multi-dimensional Markov diffusion X, the Malliavin integration by parts formula provides a family of representations of the conditional expectation E[g(X 2)|X1]. The different representations are determined by some localizing functions. We discuss the problem of variance reduction...

In principle, liabilities combining both insurancial risks (e.g. mortality/longevity, crop yield,...) and pure financial risks cannot be priced neither by applying the usual actuar- ial principles of diversification, nor by arbitrage-free replication arguments. Still, it has been often proposed...

We consider a continuous time multivariate financial market with proportional transaction costs and study the problem of finding the minimal initial capital needed to hedge, without risk, European-type contingent claims. The model is similar to the one considered in Bouchard and Touzi [B....

Let Zt,z[nu] be a -valued mixed diffusion process controlled by [nu] with initial condition Zt,z[nu](t)=z. In this paper, we characterize the set of initial conditions such that Zt,z[nu] can be driven above a given stochastic target at time T by proving that the corresponding value function is a...