Static Hedging under Time-Homogeneous Diffusions

  • Authors:
  • Peter Carr;Sergey Nadtochiy

  • Affiliations:
  • pcarr@nyc.rr.com;sergey.nadtochiy@oxford-man.ox.ac.uk

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We consider the problem of semistatic hedging of a single barrier option in a model where the underlying is a time-homogeneous diffusion, possibly running on an independent stochastic clock. The main result of the paper is an analytic expression for the payoff of a European-type contingent claim, which has the same price as the barrier option up to hitting the barrier. We then consider some examples, such as the Black-Scholes, constant elasticity of variance, and zero-correlation SABR models. Finally, we investigate an approximation of the static hedge with options of at most two different strikes.