Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1155401 Stochastic Processes and their Applications 2016 35 Pages PDF
Abstract

We provide an extension of the martingale version of the Fréchet–Hoeffding coupling to the infinitely-many marginals constraints setting. In the two-marginal context, this extension was obtained by Beiglböck and Juillet (2016), and further developed by Henry-Labordère and Touzi (in press), see also Beiglböck and Henry-Labordère (Preprint).Our main result applies to a special class of reward functions and requires some restrictions on the marginal distributions. We show that the optimal martingale transference plan is induced by a pure downward jump local Lévy model. In particular, this provides a new martingale peacock process (PCOC “Processus Croissant pour l’Ordre Convexe,” see Hirsch et al. (2011), and a new remarkable example of discontinuous fake Brownian motions. Further, as in Henry-Labordère and Touzi (in press), we also provide a duality result together with the corresponding dual optimizer in explicit form.As an application to financial mathematics, our results give the model-independent optimal lower and upper bounds for variance swaps.

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