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Maximum Maximum of Martingales given Marginals

Jan Obloj
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Peter Spoida
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We consider the problem of superhedging under volatility uncertainty for an investor allowed to dynamically trade the underlying asset and statically trade European call options for all possible strikes and finitely-many maturities. We present a general duality result which converts this problem into a min-max calculus of variations problem where the Lagrange multipliers correspond to the static part of the hedge. Following Galichon, Henry-Labordére and Touzi \cite{ght}, we apply stochastic control methods to solve it explicitly for Lookback options with a non-decreasing payoff function. The first step of our solution recovers the extended optimal properties of the Azéma-Yor solution of the Skorokhod embedding problem obtained by Hobson and Klimmek \cite{hobson-klimmek} (under slightly different conditions). The two marginal case corresponds to the work of Brown, Hobson and Rogers \cite{brownhobsonrogers}. The robust superhedging cost is complemented by (simple) dynamic trading and leads to a class of semi-static trading strategies. The superhedging property then reduces to a functional inequality which we verify independently. The optimality follows from existence of a model which achieves equality which is obtained in Ob\lój and Spoida \cite{OblSp}.
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hal-00684005 , version 1 (30-03-2012)
hal-00684005 , version 2 (09-04-2013)

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Pierre Henry-Labordere, Jan Obloj, Peter Spoida, Nizar Touzi. Maximum Maximum of Martingales given Marginals. 2013. ⟨hal-00684005v2⟩
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