Anmerkungen:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments March 1, 2007 erstellt
Beschreibung:
In an uncertain volatility model where only the stock and the money market account are traded, the upper price bound of a European claim is given by the solution of a Black-Scholes-Barenblatt equation. If an additional hedge instrument is available, the price bound can be tightened. This is also true if the set of admissible strategies is restricted to tractable strategies defined as sums of Black-Scholes strategies. By combining the approach for including additional instruments in the hedge and for finding the optimal tractable hedge, we are able to analyze the structure of the optimal superhedge. We compare both the general strategies and the tractable strategies when an additional call option is traded. The restriction to tractable strategies allows for economic arguments in finding the optimal position in the additional hedge instrument