Title :
Option pricing and robust control
Author :
McEneaney, William M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
In the standard framework, the option pricing problem involves determining a price such that the option writer can guarantee a certain bound on the cost almost surely. Due to this form, the problem may be reformulated in terms of deterministic differential games of the type employed in robust and H∞ control. The standard model yields the Black and Scholes price. Both a deterministic model and the standard model with the Ito integral replaced by the Stratonovich integral yield the price corresponding to a stop-loss hedging technique. With these methods, it can also be easily be shown that with a bounded, stochastic volatility, the Black and Scholes price corresponding to the upper bound for volatility is sufficient to hedge the option
Keywords :
differential games; economics; robust control; Black and Scholes price; H∞ control; Stratonovich integral; bounded stochastic volatility; deterministic differential games; deterministic model; option pricing; robust control; standard model; stop-loss hedging technique; Costs; Dynamic programming; Finance; Game theory; Indium tin oxide; Milling machines; Noise robustness; Pricing; Robust control; Stochastic processes;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 1995., Proceedings of the 34th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2685-7
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.1995.480545