Thanks to the reduced price and less exposition to sudden crashes or price hikes, the Asian option is among the most favorable hedging instruments that are hard to be manipulated, in both the commodity market and executive compensation plan. Since the creation of the option, the main focus has...

We study the hedging problem for European-style options written on crude-oil futures. Locally risk-minimizing hedging strategies are derived under the assumption that the dynamics of crude-oil futures are described by a Merton-type jump-diffusion. These are then tested empirically using...