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We present a numerically efficient approach for learning a risk-neutral measure for paths of simulated spot and option prices up to a finite horizon under convex transaction costs and convex trading constraints. This approach can then be…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-07-15 Hans Buehler , Phillip Murray , Mikko S. Pakkanen , Ben Wood

We consider convex stochastic optimization problems under different assumptions on the properties of available stochastic subgradient. It is known that, if the value of the objective function is available, one can obtain, in parallel,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-19 Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov , Anastasia Lagunovskaya

Proportional transaction costs present difficult theoretical problems in trading algorithm design, on account of their lack of analytical tractability. The author derives a solution of DT-NT-DT form for an arbitrary model in which the the…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2012-05-01 Richard J. Martin

We introduce a setup of model uncertainty in discrete time. In this setup we derive dual expressions for the super--replication prices of game options with upper semicontinuous payoffs. We show that the super--replication price is equal to…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2013-04-15 Yan Dolinsky

This paper discusses the num\'eraire-based utility maximization problem in markets with proportional transaction costs. In particular, the investor is required to liquidate all her position in stock at the terminal time. We first observe…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-10-13 Lingqi Gu , Yiqing Lin , Junjian Yang

We investigate duality and existence of dual optimizers for several adapted optimal transport problems under minimal assumptions. This includes the causal and bicausal transport, the causal and bicausal barycenter problem, and a…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Daniel Kršek , Gudmund Pammer

This paper studies a finite-horizon portfolio selection problem with non-concave terminal utility and proportional transaction costs, in which the commonly used concavification principle for terminal value is no longer applicable. We…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-06-04 Shuaijie Qian , Chen Yang

The paper addresses a continuous-time continuous-space chance-constrained stochastic optimal control (SOC) problem where the probability of failure to satisfy given state constraints is explicitly bounded. We leverage the notion of exit…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Apurva Patil , Alfredo Duarte , Fabrizio Bisetti , Takashi Tanaka

We propose a general approximation method for determining optimal trading strategies in markets with proportional transaction costs, with a polynomial approximation of the residual value function. The method is exemplified by several…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-07-11 Eberhard Mayerhofer

We investigate the links between various no-arbitrage conditions and the existence of pricing functionals in general markets, and prove the Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing therein. No-arbitrage conditions, either in this abstract…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-05-25 Sergey Badikov , Mark H. A. Davis , Antoine Jacquier

In spite of the growing consideration for optimal execution in the financial mathematics literature, numerical approximations of optimal trading curves are almost never discussed. In this article, we present a numerical method to…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2014-12-30 Olivier Guéant , Jean-Michel Lasry , Jiang Pu

We study the martingale optimal transport problem with state-dependent trading frictions and develop a geometric and duality framework extending from the one time-step to the multi-marginal setting. Building on the left-monotone structure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Pratik Rai

We study an American option pricing problem with liquidity risks and transaction fees. As endogenous transaction costs, liquidity risks of the underlying asset are modeled by a mean-reverting process. Transaction fees are exogenous…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-09-08 Dong Yan , Xin-Jie Huang , Guiyuan Ma , Xin-Jiang He

We extend the fundamental theorem of asset pricing to a model where the risky stock is subject to proportional transaction costs in the form of bid-ask spreads and the bank account has different interest rates for borrowing and lending. We…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-02 Alet Roux

This paper studies distributed convex optimization with both affine equality and nonlinear inequality couplings through the duality analysis. We first formulate the dual of the coupling-constraint problem and reformulate it as a consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Chenyang Qiu , Yangyang Qian , Zongli Lin , Yacov A. Shamash

In a discrete time setting, we study the central problem of giving a fair price to some financial product. For several decades, the no-arbitrage conditions and the martingale measures have played a major role for solving this problem. We…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-04-07 Laurence Carassus , Emmanuel Lépinette

In this paper we study utility maximization with proportional transaction costs. Assuming extended weak convergence of the underlying processes we prove the convergence of the corresponding utility maximization problems. Moreover, we…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-07-02 Erhan Bayraktar , Leonid Dolinskyi , Yan Dolinsky

This paper is concerned with a pairs trading rule. The idea is to monitor two historically correlated securities. When divergence is underway, i.e., one stock moves up while the other moves down, a pairs trade is entered which consists of a…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2013-02-26 Qingshuo Song , Qing Zhang

In convex optimization, duality theory can sometimes lead to simpler solution methods than those resulting from direct primal analysis. In this paper, this principle is applied to a class of composite variational problems arising in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-06-22 Patrick L. Combettes , Dinh Dung , Bang Cong Vu

We consider the convex bilevel optimization problem, also known as simple bilevel programming. There are two challenges in solving convex bilevel optimization problems. Firstly, strong duality is not guaranteed due to the lack of Slater…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Khanh-Hung Giang-Tran , Nam Ho-Nguyen , Fatma Kılınç-Karzan , Lingqing Shen