Draft. We combine static hedging and real options valuation ideas to build a capital budgeting technique. Here one applies the market information of derivative prices on a traded 'quasi twin security' to benchmark a single-step stochastic cash stream. We provide a transparent, more or less...

In this article, we consider European options of type $h(X^1_T, X^2_T,\ldots, X^n_T)$ depending on several underlying assets. We study how such options can be valued in terms of simple vanilla options in non-specified market models. We consider different approaches related to static hedging and...

In this note, we consider European options of type $h(X^1_T, X^2_T,\ldots, X^n_T)$ depending on several underlying assets. We give a multidimensional version of the result of Breeden and Litzenberger \cite{Breeden} on the relation between derivatives of the call price and the risk-neutral...

A motivating question in this paper is whether a sensible investment strategy may systematically contain long positions in out-of-the-money European calls with short expiry. Here we consider a very simple trading strategy for calls. The main points of this note are the following. First, the...