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A stochastic control approach to No-Arbitrage bounds given marginals, with an application to Lookback options

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  • Alfred Galichon

    (ECON - Département d'économie (Sciences Po) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Pierre Henri-Labordère
  • Nizar Touzi

    (CMAP - Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées - Ecole Polytechnique - X - École polytechnique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

We consider the problem of superhedging under volatility uncertainty for an investor allowed to dynamically trade the underlying asset, and statically trade European call options for all possible strikes with some given maturity. This problem is classically approached by means of the Skorohod Embedding Problem (SEP). Instead, we provide a dual formulation which converts the superhedging problem into a continuous martingale optimal transportation problem. We then show that this formulation allows us to recover previously known results about lookback options. In particular, our methodology induces a new proof of the optimality of Azéma–Yor solution of the SEP for a certain class of lookback options. Unlike the SEP technique, our approach applies to a large class of exotics and is suitable for numerical approximation techniques.

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  • Alfred Galichon & Pierre Henri-Labordère & Nizar Touzi, 2014. "A stochastic control approach to No-Arbitrage bounds given marginals, with an application to Lookback options," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-03460952, HAL.
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    DOI: 10.1214/13-AAP925
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