When Hedging Changes the Payoff: Option Replication with Price Impact and Execution Costs

By David Itkin, Leandro Sánchez-Betancourt

Rating

1500
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Relevance

9/10
Highly relevant for quantitative traders dealing with large positions or illiquid markets. It provides a rigorous mathematical framework for understanding how hedging activities alter the payoff of derivatives, which is critical for accurate pricing and risk management in institutional trading.

Implementation Complexity

8/10
High complexity due to the need to solve nonlinear PDEs and implicit ODEs. Requires advanced numerical methods for partial differential equations and fixed-point iterations.

Reproducibility

4/5
The paper provides detailed mathematical derivations, explicit solutions for quadratic payoffs, and numerical experiments with specified parameters. However, it is a theoretical paper without provided code repositories, so exact numerical reproduction requires implementing the described algorithms.

About this paper

Methodology: Nonlinear PDE and Fixed-Point Analysis. Problem types: Option Pricing, Hedging, Risk Management, Algorithmic Execution.

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