standard price hedge ratios for a wide class of contingent claims are model-free. Since options on traded assets are normally … has important implications for the hedging literature. However, standard price hedge ratios are not always the optimal … for scale-invariant models. Our theoretical results are supported by an empirical study that compares the hedging …

consistently and significantly improve on implied BSM delta hedging, for options of all moneyness and maturities and whether … rebalancing is daily, weekly or fortnightly. For most options and over all hedging horizons the regime-dependent smile …Most research on option hedging has compared the performance of delta hedges derived from different stochastic …

on the performance of standard and minimum-variance hedging of vanilla options on the FTSE 100 index. Simple adjustments …-vega hedging and they are robust to varying the option maturities and moneyness, and to different market regimes. On the …

-arbitrage conditions are also instrument-specific and have been specified for some simple classes of options. However, the problem is …

We study the empirical performance of the classical minimum-variance hedging strategy, comparing several econometric … produced by GARCH-based models are excessive. Therefore we encourage hedgers to use a na ¨ive hedging strategy on the crack … majority of the existing literature, which favours the implementation of GARCH-based hedging strategies. …

This paper presents an empirical study of hedging the four largest US index exchange traded funds (ETFs). When hedging … hedging is less effective around the time of dividend payments, and that hedged portfolio returns tend to have very large … index futures. In these situations minimum variance hedging is clearly preferable to naïve hedging, although it seems to …

Black-Scholes model in the presence of a market skew and this explains the poor delta hedging performance of these models … volatility framework allows one to extend a good pricing model into a good hedging model. The theoretical results are supported … by an empirical analysis of the hedging performance of seven models, each with different volatility characteristics, on …