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Convex Hedging in Incomplete Markets 

Author: Birgit Rudloff a
Affiliation:   a Princeton University, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton, USA
DOI: 10.1080/13504860701352206
Publication Frequency: 6 issues per year
Published in: journal Applied Mathematical Finance, Volume 14, Issue 5 December 2007 , pages 437 - 452
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Abstract

In incomplete financial markets not every contingent claim can be replicated by a self-financing strategy. The risk of the resulting shortfall can be measured by convex risk measures, recently introduced by Foumlllmer and Schied (2002). The dynamic optimization problem of finding a self-financing strategy that minimizes the convex risk of the shortfall can be split into a static optimization problem and a representation problem. It follows that the optimal strategy consists in superhedging the modified claim ./RAMF_A_235112_O_XML_IMAGES/RAMF_A_235112_O_ILM0001.gif   , where H is the payoff of the claim and ./RAMF_A_235112_O_XML_IMAGES/RAMF_A_235112_O_ILM0002.gif   is a solution of the static optimization problem, an optimal randomized test. In this paper, necessary and sufficient optimality conditions are deduced for the static problem using convex duality methods. The solution of the static optimization problem turns out to be a randomized test with a typical 0-1-structure.
Keywords: hedging; shortfall risk; convex risk measures; convex duality; generalized Neyman-Pearson lemma
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