This paper focuses on two main issues that are based on two important concepts: exponential Levy process and minimal entropy martingale measure. First, we intend to obtain   risk measurement such as value-at-risk (VaR) and conditional value-at-risk (CvaR) using Monte-Carlo methodunder minimal entropy martingale measure (MEMM) for exponential Levy process. This Martingale measure is used for the...

The intent of these essays is to study the minimal entropy martingale measure, to examine some new martingale representation theorems and to discuss its related Kunita-Watanabe decompositions. Such problems arise in mathematical finance for an investor who is confronted with the issues of pricing and hedging in incomplete markets. We adopt the standpoint of a ra­ tional investor who principally...

Let L be a multidimensional Lévy process under P in its own filtration. The f-minimal martingale measure Qq is defined as that equivalent local martingale measure for E(L) which minimizes the f-divergence E [ (dQ/dP ) ] for fixed q ∈ (−∞, 0) ∪ (1,∞). We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Qq and an explicit formula for its density. For q = 2, we relate the sufficient c...

In the framework of bilateral Gamma stock models we seek for adequate option pricing measures, which have an economic interpretation and allow numerical calculations of option prices. Our investigations encompass Esscher transforms, minimal entropy martingale measures, p-optimal martingale measures, bilateral Esscher transforms and the minimal martingale measure. We illustrate our theory by a n...

Should the regime-switching risk be priced? This is perhaps one of the important “normative” issues to be addressed in pricing contingent claims under a Markovian, regime-switching, BlackScholes-Merton model. We address this issue using a minimal relative entropy approach. Firstly, we apply a martingale representation for a double martingale to characterize the canonical space of equivalent mar...

In arbitrage-free but incomplete markets, the equivalent martingale measure Q for pricing traded assets is not uniquely determined. A possible approach when it comes to choosing a particular pricing measure is to consider the one that is ‘closest’to the physical probability measure P, where closeness is measured in terms of relative entropy. In this paper, we determine the minimal entropy marti...

Let X be a continuous adapted process for which there exists an equivalent local martingale measure (ELMM). The minimal martingale measure P̂ is the unique ELMM for X with the property that local P -martingales strongly orthogonal to the P -martingale part of X are also local P̂ -martingales. We prove that if P̂ exists, it minimizes the reverse relative entropy H(P |Q) over all ELMMs Q for X. A co...