We study a discrete-time approximation for solutions of systems of decoupled Forward-Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (FBSDEs) with jumps. Assuming that the coefficients are Lipschitz-continuous, we prove the convergence of the scheme when the number of time steps n goes to infinity....

We suggest a discrete-time approximation for decoupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations. The Lp norm of the error is shown to be of the order of the time step. Given a simulation-based estimator of the conditional expectation operator, we then suggest a backward simulation...

We consider a singular version with state constraints of the stochastic target problems studied in Soner and Touzi (SIAM J. Control Optim. 41:404–424, <CitationRef CitationID="CR23">2002</CitationRef>; J. Eur. Math. Soc. 4:201–236, <CitationRef CitationID="CR24">2002</CitationRef>) and more recently Bouchard et al. (SIAM J. Control Optim. 48:3123–3150, <CitationRef CitationID="CR6">2009</CitationRef>), among others....</citationref></citationref></citationref>

Given a multi-dimensional Markov diffusion X, the Malliavin integration by parts formula provides a family of representations of the conditional expectation E[g(X <Subscript>2</Subscript>)|X<Subscript>1</Subscript>]. The different representations are determined by some localizing functions. We discuss the problem of variance reduction...</subscript></subscript>

Motivated by an optimal investment problem under time horizon uncertainty and when default may occur, we study a general structure for an incomplete semimartingale model extending the classical terminal wealth utility maximization problem. This modelling leads to the formulation of a wealth-path...

We consider a continuous time multivariate financial market with proportional transaction costs and study the problem of finding the minimal initial capital needed to hedge, without risk, European-type contingent claims. The model is similar to the one considered in Bouchard and Touzi [B....

Let Zt,z[nu] be a -valued mixed diffusion process controlled by [nu] with initial condition Zt,z[nu](t)=z. In this paper, we characterize the set of initial conditions such that Zt,z[nu] can be driven above a given stochastic target at time T by proving that the corresponding value function is a...

We study the discrete-time approximation of the solution (Y,Z,K) of a reflected BSDE. As in Ma and Zhang [J. Ma, J. Zhang, Representations and regularities for solutions to BSDEs with reflections, Stochastic Processes and their Applications 115 (2005) 539-569], we consider a Markovian setting...

We consider the problem of option hedging in a market with proportional transaction costs. Since super-replication is very costly in such markets, we replace perfect hedging with an expected loss constraint. Asymptotic analysis for small transaction costs is used to obtain a tractable model. A...