SMS scnews item created by Anna Aksamit at Mon 13 Jan 2020 1602
Type: Seminar
Distribution: World
Expiry: 27 Jan 2020
Calendar1: 16 Jan 2020 1400-1500
CalLoc1: AGR Carslaw 829
Auth: aksamit@paksamit.pc (assumed)

# Stochastics and Finance Seminar: Ivan Guo -- Path-dependent optimal transport with applications

Speaker: Dr Ivan Guo (Monash)

Title: Path-dependent optimal transport with applications

Abstract:  We introduce a generalisation of the classical martingale optimal transport
problem that relaxes the usual marginal distribution constraints to arbitrary convex
constraints on the space of probability measures. Duality is established, which leads
to a path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, in which the solution localises
to the state variables of the constraints, while bypassing the usual dynamic programming
principle.

Our result has a variety of applications, including: model calibration on path-dependent
as well as VIX derivatives; admissibility of option prices (analogous to the first
fundamental theorem of asset pricing); portfolio selection problems with target wealth
distributions; and robust hedging in continuous time.

http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/SemConf/Stochastics_Finance/seminar.html


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