Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/zGsz9X Robust Static Super-Replication of Barrier Options By: Jan H. Maruhn Publisher: De Gruyter Print ISBN: 9783110204681, 3110204681 eText ISBN: 9783110208511, 3110208512 Edition: 1st Copyright year: 2009 Format: PDF Available from $ 196.00 USD SKU 9783110208511 Static hedge portfolios for barrier options are very sensitive with respect to changes of the volatility surface. To prevent potentially significant hedging losses this book develops a static super-replication strategy with market-typical robustness against volatility, skew and liquidity risk as well as model errors. Empirical results and various numerical examples confirm that the static superhedge successfully eliminates the risk of a changing volatility surface. Combined with associated sub-replication strategies this leads to robust price bounds for barrier options which are also relevant in the context of dynamic hedging. The mathematical techniques used to prove appropriate existence, duality and convergence results range from financial mathematics, stochastic and semi-infinite optimization, convex analysis and partial differential equations to semidefinite programming.
