It is shown that delta hedging provides the optimal trading strategy in terms of minimal required initial capital to replicate a given terminal payoff in a continuous-time Markovian context. This holds true in market models where no equivalent local martingale measure exists but only a square-integrable market price of risk. A new probability measure is constructed, which takes the place of an ...

In this paper we give a characterization of minimal distance martingale measures with respect to f-divergence distances in a general semimartin-gale market model. We provide necessary and suucient conditions for minimal distance martingale measures and determine them explicitly for exponential L evy processes with respect to several classical distances. It is shown that the minimal distance mar...

This paper examines a simple basis risk model based on correlated geometric Brownian motions. We apply quadratic criteria to minimize basis risk and hedge in an optimal manner. Initially, we derive the Föllmer–Schweizer decomposition for a European claim. This allows pricing and hedging under the minimal martingale measure, corresponding to the local risk-minimizing strategy. Furthermore, since...

We show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between diffusions and the solutions of the Skorokhod Embedding Problem due to Bertoin and Le-Jan. In particular, the minimal embedding corresponds to a ‘minimal local martingale diffusion’, which is a notion we introduce in this article. Minimality is closely related to the martingale property. A diffusion is minimal if it it minimises the expe...

The present note addresses an open question concerning a sufficient characterization of the variance-optimal martingale measure. Denote by S the discounted price process of an asset and suppose that Q? is an equivalent martingale measure whose density is a multiple of 1− φ • ST for some S-integrable process φ. We show that Q? does not necessarily coincide with the variance-optimal martingale me...

(x) when u(0, x) is the cumulative distribution function of a signed measure on IR. We associate a nonlinear martingale problem with the Fokker-Planck equation obtained by spatial differentiation of the conservation law. After checking uniqueness for both the conservation law and the martingale problem, we prove existence thanks to a propagation of chaos result for systems of interacting partic...

The equivalent martingale measures for the geometric Lévy processes are investigated. They are separated to two groups. One is the group of martingale measures which are obtained by Esscher transform. The other one is such group that are obtained as the minimal distance martingale measures. We try to obtain the explicit forms of the martingale measures, and we compare the properties of the mart...