Efficient hedging with coherent risk measure

Abstract

The idea of efficient hedging has been introduced by Föllmer and Leukert. They defined the shortfall risk as the expectation of the shortfall weighted by a loss function, and looked for strategies that minimize the shortfall risk under a capital constraint. In this paper, to measure the shortfall risk, we use the coherent risk measures introduced by Artzner, Delbaen, Eber and Heath. We show that, for a given contingent claim H, the optimal strategy consists in hedging a modified claim ϕH for some randomized test ϕ. This is an analogue of the results by Föllmer and Leukert.