This paper seeks primarily to analyze CEO holdings of stocks and options in their firm as a determinant of the decision to hedge and the intensity of hedging with option-like securities in the gold mining industry. The findings show that CEO holdings play an important role in the choice and...

Attempted dynamic replication based valuation of equity options is analyzed using the Optimal Hedge Monte-Carlo (OHMC) method. Detailed here are (1) the option hedging strategy and its costs; (2) irreducible hedging errors associated with realistically fat-tailed & asymmetric return...

Das Buch führt umfassend und anwendungsorientiert in die breite Palette der derivativen Finanzmarktinstrumente ein. Die Charakteristika von Optionen und Futures werden systematisch und mit Blick auf aktuell wichtige Märkte für Derivate erläutert. Die Darstellung der Strategien mit Derivaten...

We present a model for optimal execution of the financial derivatives. We show that if rehedging of the underwriter of the derivative is considered, the optimal strategy is generally non-deterministic even for deterministic price impact functions. This approach can be utilized for optimal...