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Explicit formulas for the minimal variance hedging strategy in a martingale case

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  • Flavio Angelini
  • Stefano Herzel

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We explicitly compute the optimal strategy in discrete time for a European option and the variance of the corresponding hedging error under the hypothesis that the underlying is a martingale following a Geometric Brownian motion.

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  • Flavio Angelini & Stefano Herzel, 2007. "Explicit formulas for the minimal variance hedging strategy in a martingale case," Quaderni del Dipartimento di Economia, Finanza e Statistica 35/2007, Università di Perugia, Dipartimento Economia.
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    • G13 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing

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