This paper focuses on the valuation and hedging of gas storage facilities, using a spot-based valuation framework coupled with a financial hedging strategy implemented with futures contracts. The contributions of this paper are two-fold. Firstly, we propose a model that unifies the dynamics of...

Backtesting risk measures represents a challenge and complex methods are often required. In this paper, we propose a new framework for backtesting that can be applied to every law invariant risk measures. We base our approach on the formalization of the concept of level of coverage associated...

We work in the Uncertain Volatility Model setting of Avellaneda, Levy, Paras [1] and Lyons [10] (cf. also [11]). We first look at European options in a market with no interest rate and focus on theextreme case where the volatility has a lower bound but no upper bound. We show that the smallest...