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Option hedging for small investors under liquidity costs

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  • H. Mete Soner
  • Umut Cetin
  • Nizar Touzi
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    Following the framework of Cetin et al. (finance stoch. 8:311-341, 2004), we study the problem of super-replication in the presence of liquidity costs under additional restrictions on the gamma of the hedging strategies in a generalized black-scholes economy. We find that the minimal super-replication price is different from the one suggested by the black-scholes formula and is the unique viscosity solution of the associated dynamic programming equation. This is in contrast with the results of Cetin et al. (Finance Stoch. 8:311-341, 2004), who find that the arbitrage-free price of a contingent claim coincides with the Black-Scholes price. However, in Cetin et al. (Finance Stoch. 8:311-341, 2004) a larger class of admissible portfolio processes is used, and the replication is achieved in the L (2) approximating sense. JEL (C61 - G13 - D52).

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    Date of creation: 2010
    Publication status: Published in Finance and Stochastics, 2010, 14(3), pp. 317-341. ISSN: 0949-2984
    Handle: RePEc:ehl:lserod:28992
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    Keywords: stochastic target problems; differential-equations; portfolio constraints; viscosity solutions; gamma-constraints; super-replication; pricing theory; markets; ISI;

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    • D52 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Incomplete Markets
    • G13 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing
    • C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis

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    Cited by:

    1. David German & Henry Schellhorn, 2012. "A No-Arbitrage Model of Liquidity in Financial Markets involving Brownian Sheets," Papers 1206.4804, arXiv.org.
    2. B Bouchard & G Loeper & Y Zou, 2015. "Hedging of covered options with linear market impact and gamma constraint," Working Papers hal-01247523, HAL.
    3. Bruno Bouchard & Grégoire Loeper & Yiyi Zou, 2016. "Almost-sure hedging with permanent price impact," Finance and Stochastics, Springer, vol. 20(3), pages 741-771, July.
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    6. Henry Schellhorn & Ran Zhao, 2016. "A String Model of Liquidity in Financial Markets," Papers 1608.05900, arXiv.org.
    7. Alexandre Roch, 2011. "Liquidity risk, price impacts and the replication problem," Finance and Stochastics, Springer, vol. 15(3), pages 399-419, September.
    8. B Bouchard & G Loeper & Y Zou, 2015. "Almost-sure hedging with permanent price impact," Working Papers hal-01133223, HAL.
    9. Peter Bank & Selim Gökay, 2016. "Superreplication when trading at market indifference prices," Finance and Stochastics, Springer, vol. 20(1), pages 153-182, January.
    10. B. Bouchard & G. Loeper & Y. Zou, 2015. "Almost-sure hedging with permanent price impact," Papers 1503.05475, arXiv.org.
    11. Olivier Gu\'eant & Jiang Pu, 2013. "Option pricing and hedging with execution costs and market impact," Papers 1311.4342, arXiv.org, revised Apr 2015.
    12. B Bouchard & G Loeper & Y Zou, 2015. "Hedging of covered options with linear market impact and gamma constraint," Papers 1512.07087, arXiv.org.
    13. Peter Bank & Selim G\"okay, 2013. "Superreplication when trading at market indifference prices," Papers 1310.3113, arXiv.org.
    14. Peter Bank & Selim Gökay, 2016. "Superreplication when trading at market indifference prices," Finance and Stochastics, Springer, vol. 20(1), pages 153-182, January.
    15. Salvatore Federico & Paul Gassiat, 2012. "Viscosity characterization of the value function of an investment-consumption problem in presence of illiquid assets," Papers 1211.1286, arXiv.org.
    16. Paolo Guasoni & Mikl\'os R\'asonyi, 2015. "Hedging, arbitrage and optimality with superlinear frictions," Papers 1506.05895, arXiv.org.
    17. Rossella Agliardi & Ramazan Gençay, 2012. "Hedging through a Limit Order Book with Varying Liquidity," Working Paper Series 12_12, The Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis.
    18. Panagiotis Christodoulou & Nils Detering & Thilo Meyer-Brandis, 2017. "Quadratic hedging with multiple assets under illiquidity with applications in energy markets," Papers 1705.06918, arXiv.org.
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    20. H. Mete Soner & Mirjana Vukelja, 2016. "Utility maximization in an illiquid market in continuous time," Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR);Nederlands Genootschap voor Besliskunde (NGB), vol. 84(2), pages 285-321, October.
    21. Feyzullah Egriboyun & H. Soner, 2010. "Optimal investment strategies with a reallocation constraint," Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR);Nederlands Genootschap voor Besliskunde (NGB), vol. 71(3), pages 551-585, June.

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