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Model-free Superhedging Duality

Mathematical Finance 2016-05-03 v3

Abstract

In a model free discrete time financial market, we prove the superhedging duality theorem, where trading is allowed with dynamic and semi-static strategies. We also show that the initial cost of the cheapest portfolio that dominates a contingent claim on every possible path ωΩ\omega \in \Omega, might be strictly greater than the upper bound of the no-arbitrage prices. We therefore characterize the subset of trajectories on which this duality gap disappears and prove that it is an analytic set.

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@article{arxiv.1506.06608,
  title  = {Model-free Superhedging Duality},
  author = {Matteo Burzoni and Marco Frittelli and Marco Maggis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.06608},
  year   = {2016}
}
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