Market models under transaction costs (duality theory, pricing, and hedging for market models under transaction costs: semimartingales and beyond)

01.08.2007 - 31.12.2008
Forschungsförderungsprojekt
Recent research has shown that admitting transaction costs in mathematical models of financial markets not only gives a better approximation of reality but also widens the class of processes which can be used for modelling purposes. It turns out that in the framework of models with transaction costs the by now classical semimartingale theory is not the natural degree of generality any more (as it is in the frictionless theory). For instance, fractional Brownian motion can be taken as the stochastic driving factor as it does not create arbitrage opportunities if transaction costs have to be considered (although it is not a semimartingale and, without friction, allows for arbitrage possibilities). The main objectives of the research outlined in this proposal are the investigation of the following topics in the framwork of models with proportional transaction costs:

* To build up an appropriate duality theory for markets in continuous time.
* To prove an equivalence between an appropriate concept of absence of arbitrage and the existence of dual variables ("consistent price systems") in continuous time.
* To solve the problem of maximising the expected terminal utility of an agent whose preferences are described by a concave increasing utility function.
* To characterize the minimizer in the dual problem and use it for pricing of contingent claims "by marginal utility" in the present context.
* To find a description of all these quantities in concrete models (e.g. driven by fractional Brownian motion but also for models driven by classical Brownian motion or Levy processes) and to study its performance as a function of the level of transaction costs. The emphasis will be on the asymptotic behaviour as transaction costs tend to zero.

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  • FWF - Österr. Wissenschaftsfonds (National) Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Beyond TUW-research focus: 100%

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DeutschEnglisch
Transaktions KostenTransaction costs
Fraktionelle Brown'sche BewegungFractional Brownian Motion

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