Utility indifference pricing and hedging for structured contracts in energy markets

Callegaro, Giorgia, Campi, Luciano, Giusto, Valeria and Vargiolu, Tiziano (2017) Utility indifference pricing and hedging for structured contracts in energy markets. Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 85 (2). pp. 265-303. ISSN 1432-2994

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Abstract

In this paper we study the pricing and hedging of structured products in energy markets, such as swing and virtual gas storage, using the exponential utility indifference pricing approach in a general incomplete multivariate market model driven by finitely many stochastic factors. The buyer of such contracts is allowed to trade in the forward market in order to hedge the risk of his position. We fully characterize the buyer’s utility indifference price of a given product in terms of continuous viscosity solutions of suitable nonlinear PDEs. This gives a way to identify reasonable candidates for the optimal exercise strategy for the structured product as well as for the corresponding hedging strategy. Moreover, in a model with two correlated assets, one traded and one nontraded, we obtain a representation of the price as the value function of an auxiliary simpler optimization problem under a risk neutral probability, that can be viewed as a perturbation of the minimal entropy martingale measure. Finally, numerical results are provided.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.springer.com/mathematics/journal/186
Additional Information:	© 2017 The Authors © CC BY 4.0
Divisions:	Statistics
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HA Statistics
Date Deposited:	20 Jan 2017 16:53
Last Modified:	26 Feb 2024 20:45
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/68953

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