Research

On the following pages you can find out more about my scientific interests, publications and selected talks I gave at various conferences.

Scientific Interests
Publications
Selected Talks

Book: Robust Static Super-Replication of Barrier Options

de Gruyter, 2009, 197 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 978-3-11-020468-1

Static hedge portfolios for barrier options are very sensitive with respect to changes of the volatility surface. To prevent potentially significant hedging losses this book develops a static super-replication strategy with market-typical robustness against volatility, skew and liquidity risk as well as model errors. Empirical results and various numerical examples confirm that the static superhedge successfully eliminates the risk of a changing volatility surface. Combined with associated sub-replication strategies this leads to robust price bounds for barrier options which are also relevant in the context of dynamic hedging. The mathematical techniques used to prove appropriate existence, duality and convergence results range from financial mathematics, stochastic and semi-infinite optimization, convex analysis and partial differential equations to semidefinite programming.

Written for practitioners, researchers and graduate students in financial mathematics.

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Book review and further details:
http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/ma/detailEn.cfm?isbn=9783110204681&sel=rz