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On the Malliavin approach to Monte Carlo approximation of conditional expectations

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  • Bruno Bouchard
  • Ivar Ekeland
  • Nizar Touzi

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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 )|X 1 ]. The different representations are determined by some localizing functions. We discuss the problem of variance reduction within this family. We characterize an exponential function as the unique integrated mean-square-error minimizer among the class of separable localizing functions. For general localizing functions, we prove existence and uniqueness of the optimal localizing function in a suitable Sobolev space. We also provide a PDE characterization of the optimal solution which allows to draw the following observation : the separable exponential function does not minimize the integrated mean square error, except for the trivial one-dimensional case. We provide an application to a portfolio allocation problem, by use of the dynamic programming principle. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2004

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  • Bruno Bouchard & Ivar Ekeland & Nizar Touzi, 2004. "On the Malliavin approach to Monte Carlo approximation of conditional expectations," Finance and Stochastics, Springer, vol. 8(1), pages 45-71, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:finsto:v:8:y:2004:i:1:p:45-71
    DOI: 10.1007/s00780-003-0109-0
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