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Hedging with Small Uncertainty Aversion

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  • Sebastian Herrmann

    (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)

  • Johannes Muhle-Karbe

    (Imperial College London - Department of Mathematics)

  • Frank Thomas Seifried

    (University of Trier)

Abstract

We study the pricing and hedging of derivative securities with uncertainty about the volatility of the underlying asset. Rather than taking all models from a prespecified class equally seriously, we penalise less plausible ones based on their "distance" to a reference local volatility model. In the limit for small uncertainty aversion, this leads to explicit formulas for prices and hedging strategies in terms of the security’s cash gamma.

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  • Sebastian Herrmann & Johannes Muhle-Karbe & Frank Thomas Seifried, 2015. "Hedging with Small Uncertainty Aversion," Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series 15-19, Swiss Finance Institute, revised Apr 2017.
    • Handle: RePEc:chf:rpseri:rp1519
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    1. Frank Bosserhoff & Mitja Stadje, 2019. "Robustness of Delta Hedging in a Jump-Diffusion Model," Papers 1910.08946, arXiv.org, revised Apr 2022.
    2. Julio Backhoff-Veraguas & Daniel Bartl & Mathias Beiglböck & Manu Eder, 2020. "Adapted Wasserstein distances and stability in mathematical finance," Finance and Stochastics, Springer, vol. 24(3), pages 601-632, July.
    3. Sebastian Herrmann & Johannes Muhle-Karbe, 2017. "Model Uncertainty, Recalibration, and the Emergence of Delta-Vega Hedging," Papers 1704.04524, arXiv.org.
    4. Daniel Bartl & Ariel Neufeld & Kyunghyun Park, 2023. "Sensitivity of robust optimization problems under drift and volatility uncertainty," Papers 2311.11248, arXiv.org.
    5. Mostovyi, Oleksii, 2020. "Asymptotic analysis of the expected utility maximization problem with respect to perturbations of the numéraire," Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Elsevier, vol. 130(7), pages 4444-4469.
    6. Alexander M. G. Cox & Annemarie M. Grass, 2023. "Robust option pricing with volatility term structure -- An empirical study for variance options," Papers 2312.09201, arXiv.org.
    7. Marcelo Righi, 2024. "Optimal hedging with variational preferences under convex risk measures," Papers 2407.03431, arXiv.org, revised Oct 2024.
    8. Johannes Muhle-Karbe & Marcel Nutz, 2018. "A risk-neutral equilibrium leading to uncertain volatility pricing," Finance and Stochastics, Springer, vol. 22(2), pages 281-295, April.
    9. Kasper Larsen & Oleksii Mostovyi & Gordan Žitković, 2018. "An expansion in the model space in the context of utility maximization," Finance and Stochastics, Springer, vol. 22(2), pages 297-326, April.
    10. Julio Backhoff-Veraguas & Daniel Bartl & Mathias Beiglbock & Manu Eder, 2019. "Adapted Wasserstein Distances and Stability in Mathematical Finance," Papers 1901.07450, arXiv.org, revised May 2020.
    11. Yannick Limmer & Blanka Horvath, 2023. "Robust Hedging GANs," Papers 2307.02310, arXiv.org.
    12. Ariel Neufeld & Matthew Ng Cheng En & Ying Zhang, 2024. "Robust SGLD algorithm for solving non-convex distributionally robust optimisation problems," Papers 2403.09532, arXiv.org.
    13. Sebastian Herrmann & Johannes Muhle-Karbe, 2017. "Model uncertainty, recalibration, and the emergence of delta–vega hedging," Finance and Stochastics, Springer, vol. 21(4), pages 873-930, October.

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    Keywords

    volatility uncertainty; ambiguity aversion; option pricing and hedging; asymptotics;
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    JEL classification:

    • G13 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing
    • C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
    • C73 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games

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