This paper proposes a new hedging scheme of European derivatives under uncertain volatility environments, in which a weighted variance swap called the polynomial variance swap is added to the Black-Scholes delta hedging for managing exposure to volatility risk. In general, under these...

This paper proposes a simple scheme for static hedging of defaultable contingent claims. It generalizes the techniques developed by Carr and Chou (1997), Carr and Madan (1998), and Takahashi and Yamazaki (2009a) to credit-equity models. Our scheme provides a hedging strategy across credit and...

While the proportional hazard model is recognized to be statistically meaningful for analyzing and estimating financial event risks, the existing literature that analytically deals with the valuation problems is very limited. In this paper, adopting the proportional hazard model in continuous...