This study reconsiders the problem of hedging a liability by a portfolio made of a riskless asset and an underlying (underlying).

The age structure of the French population has been experiencing dramatic changes over the past decades and is likely to do so in a near future. The increasing proportion of the elder people may modify the savings behaviour of households. The level of savings, as well as its composition, may be...

The age structure of the French population has been experiencing dramatic changes over the past decades and is likely to do so in a near future. The increasing proportion of elder people may modify the savings behavior of French households. The level of savings, as well as its composition, may...

This article emphasises that the information provided by term structures of commodity prices has an influence on the real option value and on the investment decision. We exhibit first of all the analysis framework: the evaluation of an oil field. We suppose that a single source of uncertainty -...

La présentation de la théorie du stockage et de la notion de convenience yield permet d’exposer les fondements théoriques des modèles de structure par terme des prix des commodités. Ces derniers peuvent être utilisés pour réaliser des opérations de couverture ou dans le cadre de...

The age structure of the French population has been experiencing dramatic changes over the past decades and is likely to do so in a near future. The increasing proportion of elder people may modify the saving behaviour of French households. The level of saving, as well as its composition, may be...

The number of articles on real options arises some questions. Is it possible to employ them in every field? What can we expect of them a valuation method, or a new way of thinking? This text aim to answer to these questions. It gives some precision on the analogy between real and financial...

We use in this chapter the viability/capturability approach for studying the problem of dynamic valuation and management of a portfolio with transaction costs in the framework of tychastic control systems (or dynamical games against nature) instead of stochastic control systems. Indeed, the very...