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Pierre M. Blacque-Florentin

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Functional calculus and martingale representation formula for integer-valued random measures

We develop a non-anticipative calculus for functionals of a continuous martingale and an integer-valued random measure. We first construct a non-anticipative functional derivative, which is shown to be the inverse of the stochastic integration for a dense functional class of integrands. We then show that this operator has a unique closure which is an isometry and defines a stochastic derivative acting on stochastic integrals. This stochastic derivative yields a constructive martingale representation formula and an orthogonal decomposition. The construction allows for random compensators, singular continuous time dependence and degenerate continuous covariation. On Wiener-Poisson space, the stochastic derivative is shown to be the predictable projection of the Malliavin derivative; we also obtain a factorization based on local mark gradients. We exhibit several applications of this framework to integer-valued random measures: sensitivity formulas and a convergent expansion for expectations under bounded predictable perturbations of the compensator, a change-of-measure formula for the derivative, a decomposition of the relative entropy in terms of the stochastic derivative, and a pathwise refinement of the Mecke formula.

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Nonparametric and arbitrage-free construction of call surfaces using l1-recovery

This paper is devoted to the application of an $l_1$ -minimisation technique to construct an arbitrage-free call-option surface. We propose a nononparametric approach to obtaining model-free call option surfaces that are perfectly consistent with market quotes and free of static arbitrage. The approach is inspired from the compressed-sensing framework that is used in signal processing to deal with under-sampled signals. We address the problem of fitting the call-option surface to sparse option data. To illustrate the methodology, we proceed to the construction of the whole call-price surface of the S\&P500 options, taking into account the arbitrage possibilities in the time direction. The resulting object is a surface free of both butterfly and calendar-spread arbitrage that matches the original market points. We then move on to an FX application, namely the HKD/USD call-option surface.

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