2016/12/02 by Shirvani, Abootaleb, Stoyanov, Stoyan V., Rachev, Svetlozar T. +1 · 1 citation
#FOS: Economics and business #General Finance (q-fin.GN) #Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1612.00828
In complete markets, there are risky assets and a riskless asset. It is assumed that the riskless asset and the risky asset are traded continuously in time and that the market is frictionless. In this paper, we propose a new method for hedging derivatives assuming that a hedger should not always rely on trading existing assets that are used to form a linear portfolio comprised of the risky asset, the riskless asset, and standard derivatives, but rather should design a set of specific, most-suited financial instruments for the hedging problem. We introduce a sequence of new financial instruments best suited for hedging jump-diffusion and stochastic volatility market models. The new instruments we introduce are perpetual derivatives. More specifically, they are options with perpetual maturities. In a financial market where perpetual derivatives are introduced, there is a new set of partial and partial-integro differential equations for pricing derivatives. Our analysis demonstrates that the set of new financial instruments together with a risk measure called the tail-loss ratio measure defined by the new instrument's return series can be potentially used as an early warning system for a market crash.