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Price comparison results and super‐replication: An application to passport options

Price comparison results and super‐replication: An application to passport options In this paper, we provide a new proof of the result that option prices are increasing in volatility when the underlying is a diffusion process. This has been shown to hold for convex payoff, path‐independent options by El Karoui et al. and Hobson amongst others. The advantage of the new proof is that it can be extended to establish monotonicity results for path‐dependent payoffs where the payoff depends on the maximum (or minimum) of the asset price process. The techniques used to prove each of these results are mean comparison theorems of Hajek and coupling of stochastic processes. Using these results, and the connection between passport and look back options, we prove that the price of a passport option is increasing in volatility for general diffusion models for the asset price. It is shown that the seller of a passport option can super‐replicate if the volatility is overestimated, regardless of the strategy followed by the holder. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry Wiley

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Wiley
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Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
ISSN
1524-1904
eISSN
1526-4025
DOI
10.1002/1526-4025(200010/12)16:4<297::AID-ASMB420>3.0.CO;2-M
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Abstract

In this paper, we provide a new proof of the result that option prices are increasing in volatility when the underlying is a diffusion process. This has been shown to hold for convex payoff, path‐independent options by El Karoui et al. and Hobson amongst others. The advantage of the new proof is that it can be extended to establish monotonicity results for path‐dependent payoffs where the payoff depends on the maximum (or minimum) of the asset price process. The techniques used to prove each of these results are mean comparison theorems of Hajek and coupling of stochastic processes. Using these results, and the connection between passport and look back options, we prove that the price of a passport option is increasing in volatility for general diffusion models for the asset price. It is shown that the seller of a passport option can super‐replicate if the volatility is overestimated, regardless of the strategy followed by the holder. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Applied Stochastic Models in Business and IndustryWiley

Published: Oct 1, 2000

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