This paper concerns the problems of quadratic hedging and pricing, and mean-variance portfolio selection in an incomplete market setting with continuous trading, multiple assets, and Brownian information. In particular, we assume throughout that the parameters describing the market model may be random processes. We approach these problems from the perspective of linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal co...

We consider the problem of dynamically hedging the profits of a corporation when these profits are correlated with returns in the financial markets. In particular, we consider the general problem of simultaneously optimizing over both the operating policy and the hedging strategy of the corporation. We discuss how different informational assumptions give rise to different types of hedging and s...

a r t i c l e i n f o In this paper, we explore the impact of investor time-horizon on an optimal downside hedged energy portfolio. The optimal heating oil hedge ratio is first calculated for a variety of downside risk objective functions at different time-horizons using the wavelet transform. Next, associated hedging effectiveness is contrasted for a range of risk metrics, with all metrics sho...

The e¢ cient and accurate calculation of sensitivities of the price of …nancial derivatives with respect to perturbations of the parameters in the underlying model, the so called ‘Greeks’, remains a great practical challenge in the derivative industry. This is true regardless of whether methods for partial di¤erential equations or stochastic di¤erential equations (Monte Carlo techniques) are be...

Standard operating policy and hedging policies are commonly used for reservoir operation for municipal or irrigation water supply. Application of these policies to hydropower reservoir operation is complex. In this paper, new standard operating policies and standard hedging policy are proposed for hydropower reservoir operation. The newly proposed policies were applied to the operation of Indir...

Usually non-maturity deposits form a considerable part of banks' assets and funding and thus hedging the interest rate risk of them is important. However, the available research addressing non-maturity deposit valuation is very limited. In this Thesis, we compare models for estimating the deposit rate and stock evolution and suggest suitable hedging possibilities for non-maturity deposits. Non-...

This paper characterizes optimal currency hedging in several models of downside risk. We consider, in turn, three models of hedging: (i) a firm that chooses its hedging policy in the presence of bankruptcy costs; (ii) an all equity firm that faces a convex tax schedule; and (iii) a firm whose manager is subject to loss aversion. In all these models, and contrary to conventional wisdom, we show ...

Macrohedging is a hedging technique commonly used in practice. It allows one to find a hedging policy that offsets several underlying risk factors of a portfolio of assets as a whole. Here, we develop a macrohedging methodology in a general semimartingale market. We calculate the optimal macrohedge that achieves minimum risk, in a quadratic-variation sense, given a set of possible hedging instr...

In this article, an analytical approximate solution method is given to provide investors with the means to make optimal consumption and portfolio choices with recursive utility in a complete market. The investment opportunity set is stochastic over time. The method is used to provide an exact determination of the unit elasticity of intertemporal substitution. An approximate solution method is d...