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2006
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Online trading algorithms and robust option pricing
In this work we show how to use efficient online trading algorithms to price the current value of financial instruments, such as an option. We derive both upper and lower bounds f...
Peter DeMarzo, Ilan Kremer, Yishay Mansour
STOC
2012
ACM
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11 years 7 months ago
Minimax option pricing meets black-scholes in the limit
Option contracts are a type of financial derivative that allow investors to hedge risk and speculate on the variation of an asset’s future market price. In short, an option has...
Jacob Abernethy, Rafael M. Frongillo, Andre Wibiso...
FS
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Hedging variance options on continuous semimartingales
We find robust model-free hedges and price bounds for options on the realized variance of [the returns on] an underlying price process. Assuming only that the underlying process ...
Peter Carr, Roger Lee
SIAMFM
2011
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12 years 7 months ago
Robust Hedging of Double Touch Barrier Options
We consider model-free pricing of digital options, which pay out if the underlying asset has crossed both upper and lower barriers. We make only weak assumptions about the underly...
A. M. G. Cox, Jan Obloj
CATS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Linear Time Algorithm for Pricing European Sequential Barrier Options
Financial derivatives are contracts concerning rights and obligations to engage in future transactions on some underlying financial instrument. A major concern in financial mark...
Peng Gao, Ron van der Meyden