SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol.50, No.4, 2065-2089, 2012
SUPERHEDGING AND DYNAMIC RISK MEASURES UNDER VOLATILITY UNCERTAINTY
We consider dynamic sublinear expectations (i.e., time-consistent coherent risk measures) whose scenario sets consist of singular measures corresponding to a general form of volatility uncertainty. We derive a cadlag nonlinear martingale which is also the value process of a superhedging problem. The superhedging strategy is obtained from a representation similar to the optional decomposition. Furthermore, we prove an optional sampling theorem for the nonlinear martingale and characterize it as the solution of a second order backward SDE. The uniqueness of dynamic extensions of static sublinear expectations is also studied.
Keywords:volatility uncertainty;risk measure;time consistency;nonlinear martingale;superhedging;replication;second order BSDE;G-expectation