Super-replication with fixed transaction costs

The super-replication theorem under proportional transaction costs revisited

We consider a financial market with one riskless and one risky asset. The super-replication theorem states that there is no duality gap in the problem of super-replicating a contingent claim under transaction costs and the associated dual problem. We give two versions of this theorem. The first theorem relates a numéraire-based admissibility condition in the primal problem to the notion of a lo...

A super-replication theorem in Kabanov's model of transaction costs

We prove a general version of the super-replication theorem, which applies to Kabanov’s model of foreign exchange markets under proportional transaction costs. The market is described by a matrix-valued càdlàg bid-ask process (Πt)t∈[0,T ] evolving in continuous time. We propose a new definition of admissible portfolio processes as predictable (not necessarily right or left continuous) processes...

Asymptotics for fixed transaction costs

An investor with constant relative risk aversion trades a safe and several risky assets with constant investment opportunities. For a small fixed transaction cost, levied on each trade regardless of its size, we explicitly determine the leading-order corrections to the frictionless value function and optimal policy.

Explicit characterization of the super-replication strategy in financial markets with partial transaction costs

We consider a multivariate financial market with transaction costs and study the problem of finding the minimal initial capital needed to hedge, without risk, European-type contingent claims. The model is similar to the one considered in Bouchard and Touzi (2000), except that some of the assets can be exchanged freely, i.e. without paying transaction costs. In this context, we generalize the re...

Portfolio Optimization Under Fixed Transaction Costs