A closed-form solution to the problem of super-replication under transaction costs (Q1297907)

The authors investigate the problem of finding the minimal price needed to dominate European-type contingent claims under proportional transaction costs in a Markovian continuous-time model. Using a representation of the minimal super-replication price as a supremum for the expectations of the claim under the equivalent probability measure under which the appropriately discounted wealth process is a supermartingale the authors show that the least expensive dominating strategy for general path-independent contingent claims is equal to the least expensive buy-and-hold strategy. The viscosity solutions approach to that stochastic control problem is used.