Download or read book Approximate Hedging with Transaction Costs and Leland's Algorithm in Stochastic Volatility Markets written by Huu-Thai Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis studies the problem of approximate hedging with constant proportional transaction costs in stochastic volatility models in different situations, using a simpler form for adjusted volatility in the Leland's algorithm. We show that asymptotic properties of hedging error are the same to those in deterministic volatility models and the rate of convergence can be impoved by controlling the model parameter. These can be extended to the case where transaction costs are defined by a general rule. We also show that jumps appear in asset price and/or in stochastic volatility do not affect asymptotic property of hedging error. In the next part, we consider the problem of approximate hedging in the presence of liquidity risks suggested by Cetin, Jarrow and Protter, of which proportional transaction costs models are a particular case. We show that liquidity costs due to smooth supply surves can be ignored using Leland's increasing volatility principle. In the third part, we study the case where the option is written on multiple risky assets. We demonstrate that approximately complete replication can be reached for exchange options using the same parameter suggested by Leland, but it is far from being obvious for other kinds of exotic options. Finally, we propose a simple method to reduce the option price which clearly approaches to the super hedging price in Leland's algorithm. whenever the seller accepts to take a risk defined by a given significance level.