Robust Hedging of Variance Swaps: Discrete Sampling & Co-maturing European Options

In the practice of quantitative finance, model risk has raised significant concern and thus model-independent hedging is of particular interest to both academia and industry. In this thesis, we review two methods of constructing robust and model-independent hedging portfolios of variance swaps. One...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zhang, C
Format: Thesis
Published: University of Oxford;Mathematical Institute 2012