Mean-Variance Hedging for General Claims in an Incomplete Market: Numeraire Method

This paper considered the problem of hedging a European call (put) option for a diffusion model where the asset price is influenced by n uncertain factors. The market is thus incomplete implying that perfect hedging is not possible. To derive a hedging strategy, it follows the approach based on the idea of hedging under a mean-variance criterion suggested by Schweizer. A very simple solution of this hedging problem by using the numeraire method was presented and some examples with explicit solutions were given.

CLAIM HEDGING IN AN INCOMPLETE MARKET

In this paper, we compare the performance of the optimal attainable payoffs (of a general claim) derived by the variance-optimal approach and the indifference argument under the mean-variance preference in an incomplete market. Both payoffs are expressed by the signed variance-optimal martingale measure. Our results are applied to the claim hedging under partial information.

TWO-AGENT PARETO OPTIMAL COOPERATIVE INVESTMENT IN INCOMPLETE MARKET:AN EQUIVALENT CHARACTERIZATION

This paper studies the following cooperative investment game with two agents. At the start of the game, both the agents＇ capital are collected. The total capital are then invested according to a certain trading strategy. At a certain time To one agent quits the cooperation and they divide the wealth among themselves. During the remaining period [To, T], the other agent invests his/her capital following a possibly different trading strategy. By stochastic optimization method combined with the theory of Backward Stochastic Differential Equations （BSDEs, for short）, we give an equivalent characterization of the Pareto optimal cooperative strategies.

Asymptotic Inefficiency of Incomplete Asset Markets and Symmetric Event Trees

Demonstrating theoretically the possibility that the financial market, albeit incomplete, has equilibrium and that this equilibrium is efficient and has been an important topic at the frontier of the research on general equilibrium for financial markets. The paper examines the asymptotic properties of incomplete financial markets taking into accounting the asset structure. The paper deals with a case in which a structure of securities relates to the asymptotic inefficiency.

PRICING AND HEDGING OF AMERICAN CONTINGENT CLAIMS IN INCOMPLETE MARKETS

This paper studies the pricing and hedging for American contingent claims in an incom-plete market under mild conditions using the numeraire method to avoid changes of probabilitymeasure. When the market is incomplete, prices can not be derived by no-arbitrage arguments,since it is not possible to replicate the payoff of a given contingent claim by a controlled portfolioof the basic securitites. We adopt the method of fictitious completion of [1] to provide an upperbound and a lower bound for the actual market price of the claim.

THE METRIC GENERALIZED INVERSE AND ITS SINGLE-VALUE SELECTION IN THE PRICING OF CONTINGENT CLAIMS IN AN INCOMPLETE FINANCIAL MARKET

This article continues to study the research suggestions in depth made by M.Z.Nashed and G.F.Votruba in the journal"Bull.Amer.Math.Soc."in 1974.Concerned with the pricing of non-reachable"contingent claims"in an incomplete financial market,when constructing a specific bounded linear operator A:l_(1)^(n)→l_(2) from a non-reflexive Banach space l_(1)^(n) to a Hilbert space l_(2),the problem of non-reachable"contingent claims"pricing is reduced to researching the(single-valued)selection of the(set-valued)metric generalized inverse A■ of the operator A.In this paper,by using the Banach space structure theory and the generalized inverse method of operators,we obtain a bounded linear single-valued selection A^(σ)=A+of A■.

DISCRETE TIME STOCHASTIC EQUILIBRIUM WITH INFINITE HORIZON INCOMPLETE ASSET MARKETS

This paper examines the existence of general equilibrium in a discrete time economy with the infinite horizon incomplete markets.There is a single good at each node in the event tree.The existence of general equilibrium for the infinite horizon economy is proved by taking limit of equilibria in truncated economies in which trade stops at a sequence of dates.

EXISTENCE OF STOCHASTIC EQUILIBRIUM WITH INCOMPLETE FINANCIAL MARKETS

This paper analyzes the aritrage free security markets and the general equilibrium existence problem for a stochastic economy with incomplete financial markets. Information structure is given by an event tree. This paper restricts attention to purely financial securities. It is assume that trading takes place in the sequence of spot markets and futures markets for securities payable in units of account. Unlimited short selling in securities is allowed. Financial markets may be incomplete: some consumption streams may be impossible to obtain by any trading strategy. Securities may be individually precluded from trade at arbitrary states and dates. The security price process is arbitrage free the dividend process if and only if there exists a stochstic state price (present value) process: the present value of the security prices at every vertex is the present value of their dividend and capital values over the set of immediate successors; the current value of each security at every vertex is the present value of its future dividend stream over all succeeding vertices. The existence of such an equilibrium is proved under the following condition: continuous, weakly convex, strictly monotone and complete preferences, strictly positive endowments and dividends processes.

ANALYSIS OF INCOMPLETE STOCK MARKET WITH JUMP-DIFFUSION UNCERTAINTY

This paper studies incomplete stock market that includes discontinuous price processes. The discontinuity is modeled by very general point processes admitting only stochastic intensities. Prices are driven by jump-diffusion uncertainty and have random but predictable jumps. The space of risk-neutral measures that are associated with the market is identified and related to fictitious completions. The construction of replicating portfolios is discussed, and convex duality methods are used to prove existence of optimal consumption and investment policies for a problem of utility maximization.

On discrete time hedging errors in a fractional Black-Scholes model

In this paper we investigate asymptotic behavior of error of a discrete time hedging strategy in a fractional Black-Scholes model in the sense of Wick-ItS-Skorohod integration. The rate of convergence of the hedging error due to discrete-time trading when the true strategy is known for the trader, is investigated. The result provides new statistical tools to study and detect the effect of the long-memory and the Hurst parameter for the error of discrete time hedging.

Minimal Martingale Measures for Discrete-time Incomplete Financial Markets

In this note, we give a characterization of the minimal martingale measure for a general discrete-time incomplete financial market. Then we concretely work out the minimal martingale measure for a specific discrete-time market model in which the assets' returns in different times are independent.

INTEREST RATE RISK PREMIUM AND EQUITY VALUATION

The authors employ the recent stochastic-control-based approach to financial mathematicsto solve a problem of determination of the risk premium for a stochastic interest rate model,andthe corresponding problem of equity valuation.The risk premium is determined explicitly,by meansof solving a corresponding partial differential equation (PDE),in two forms:one,time-dependent,corresponding to a finite time contract expiration,and the simpler version corresponding to perpetualcontracts.As stocks are perpetual contracts,when solving the problem of equity valuation,the latterform of the risk premium is used.By means of solving the general pricing PDE,an efficient equityvaluation method was developed that is a combination of some sophisticated explicit formulas,and anumerical procedure.

The term structure of Sharpe ratios and arbitragefree asset pricing in continuous time

Motivated by financial and empirical arguments and in order to introduce a more flexible methodology of pricing,we provide a new approach to asset pricing based on Backward Volterra equations.The approach relies on an arbitrage-free and incomplete market setting in continuous time by choosing non-unique pricing measures depending either on the time of evaluation or on the maturity of payoffs.We show that in the latter case the dynamics can be captured by a time-delayed backward stochastic Volterra integral equation here introduced which,to the best of our knowledge,has not yet been studied.We then prove an existence and uniqueness result for time-delayed backward stochastic Volterra integral equations.Finally,we present a Lucas-type consumption-based asset pricing model that justifies the emergence of stochastic discount factors matching the term structure of Sharpe ratios.