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Super-Replication with Fixed Transaction Costs

Mathematical Finance 2018-10-16 v3

Abstract

We study super--replication of contingent claims in markets with fixed transaction costs. This can be viewed as a stochastic impulse control problem with a terminal state constraint. The first result in this paper reveals that in reasonable continuous time financial market models the super--replication price is prohibitively costly and leads to trivial buy--and--hold strategies. Our second result derives nontrivial scaling limits of super--replication prices for binomial models with small fixed costs.

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@article{arxiv.1610.09234,
  title  = {Super-Replication with Fixed Transaction Costs},
  author = {Peter Bank and Yan Dolinsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.09234},
  year   = {2018}
}
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