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Hawkes-based microstructure of rough volatility model with sharp rise
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Path-dependent optimal transport and applications
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We extend stochastic optimal transport to path-dependent settings. The problem is to find a semimartingale measure that satisfies general path-dependent constraints, while minimising a cost function on the drift and diffusion coefficients. Duality is established and expressed via non-linear path-dependent partial differential equations (PPDEs). The technique has applications in volatility calibration, including the calibration of path-dependent derivatives, LSV models, and joint SPX-VIX models. It produces a non-parametric volatility model that localises to the features of the derivatives. Another application is in the robust pricing and hedging of American options in continuous time. This is achieved by establishing duality in a space enlarged by the stopping decisions, and showing that the extremal points of martingale measures on the enlarged space are in fact martingale measures on the original space coupled with stopping times.
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Robust Duality for multi-action options with information delay
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We show the super-hedging duality for multi-action options which generalise American options to a larger space of actions (possibly uncountable) than {stop, continue}. We put ourselves in the framework of Bouchard & Nutz model relying on analytic measurable selection theorem. Finally we consider information delay on the action component of the product space. Information delay is expressed as a possibility to look into the future in the dual formulation. This is a joint work with Ivan Guo, Shidan Liu and Zhou Zhou.