Maximum Maximum of Martingales given Marginals

We consider the problem of superhedging under volatility uncertainty for an investor allowed to dynamically trade the underlying asset and statically trade European call options for all possible strikes and finitely-many maturities. We present a general duality result which converts this problem into a min-max calculus of variations problem where the Lagrange multipliers correspond to the static part of the hedge. Following Galichon, Henry-Labordére and Touzi \cite{ght}, we apply stochastic control methods to solve it explicitly for Lookback options with a non-decreasing payoff function. The first step of our solution recovers the extended optimal properties of the Azéma-Yor solution of the Skorokhod embedding problem obtained by Hobson and Klimmek \cite{hobson-klimmek} (under slightly different conditions). The two marginal case corresponds to the work of Brown, Hobson and Rogers \cite{brownhobsonrogers}. The robust superhedging cost is complemented by (simple) dynamic trading and leads to a class of semi-static trading strategies. The superhedging property then reduces to a functional inequality which we verify independently. The optimality follows from existence of a model which achieves equality which is obtained in Ob\lój and Spoida \cite{OblSp}.

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Source https://hal.science/hal-00684005
Author Henry-Labordere, Pierre, Obloj, Jan, Spoida, Peter, Touzi, Nizar
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 11, 2026, 15:25 (UTC)
Created May 11, 2026, 15:25 (UTC)
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creator Henry-Labordere, Pierre
date 2013-04-07T00:00:00
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harvest_source_title test moissonnage SELUNE
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