10.5 Incompleteness 575
(b) El Karoui and Quenez [307] is the main paper on super-replication
prices. It establishes that when the dynamics of the stock are driven by a
Wiener process, then the supremum of the viable prices is equal to the minimal
initial value of an admissible self-financing strategy that super-replicates the
contingent claim. This result is generalized by Kramkov [543]. See Mania [617]
and Hugonnier [191] for applications.
(c) Eberlein and Jacod [290] establish the absence of non-trivial bounds
on European option prices in a model where prices are driven by a purely
discontinuous L´evy process with unbounded jumps. The results can be
extended to a more general case, where S
t
= e
X
t
where X is a L´evy
process.(See Jakubenas [473].) These results can also be extended to the
case where the pay-off is of the form h(S
T
) as long as the convexity of the
Black and Scholes function [which is defined, with the notation of (10.5.4),
as E(h(X
T
)|X
t
= x)], is established. Bergman et al. [75], El Karoui et al.
[302, 301], Hobson [440]andMartini[625] among others have studied the
convexity property. See also Ekstr¨om et al. [296] for a generalization of this
convexity property to a multi-dimensional underlying asset. The papers of
Mordecki [413] and Bergenthum and R¨uschendorf [74] give bounds for option
prices in a general setting.
10.5.3 General Contingent Claims
More generally, let B be any contingent claim, i.e., B ∈ L
2
(F
T
). This
contingent claim is said to be hedgeable if there exists a process π and a
constant b such that R(T) B = b +
T
0
π
s
d[RS]
s
.
Let X
y,π,C
be the solution of
dX
t
= r(t)X
t
dt + π
t
X
t
−
[σ(t)dW
0
t
+ φ(t)dM
t
] − dC
t
X
0
= y.
Here, (π, C) belongs to the class V(y) consisting of pairs of adapted processes
(π, C) such that X
y,π,C
t
≥ 0, ∀t ≥ 0, π being a predictable process and C an
increasing process. The minimal value
inf{y : ∃(π,C) ∈V(y) ,X
y,π,C
T
≥ B}
which represents the minimal price that allows the seller to hedge his position,
is the selling price of B or the super-replication price.
The non-negative assumption on the wealth process precludes arbitrage
opportunities.
Proposition 10.5.3.1 Here, γ is a generic element of Γ (see Definition
10.5.1.2). We assume that sup
γ
E
γ
(B) < ∞.Let
]inf
γ
E
γ
(R(T )B), sup
γ
E
γ
(R(T )B)[