Asset Pricing under uncertainty

We study the effect of parameter uncertainty on a stochastic diffusion model, in particular the impact on the pricing of contingent claims, using methods from the theory of Dirichlet forms. We apply these techniques to hedging procedures in order to compute the sensitivity of SDE trajectories with respect to parameter perturbations. We show that this analysis can justify endogenously the presence of a bid-ask spread on the option prices. We also prove that if the stochastic differential equation admits a closed form representation then the sensitivities have closed form representations. We examine the case of log-normal diffusion and we show that this framework leads to a smiled implied volatility surface coherent with historical data.

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Source https://hal.science/hal-00679037
Author Scotti, Simone
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 24, 2026, 18:12 (UTC)
Created May 24, 2026, 18:12 (UTC)
Identifier hal-00679037
Language en
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contributor Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires (LPMA) ; Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Scotti, Simone
date 2012-01-01T00:00:00
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harvest_source_title test moissonnage SELUNE
metadata_modified 2025-09-29T00:00:00
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