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This paper provides a survey on an asymptotic expansion approach to valuation and hedging problems in finance. The asymptotic expansion is a widely applicable methodology for analytical approximations of expectations of certain Wiener functionals. Hence not only academic researchers but also practitioners have been applying the scheme to a variety of problems in finance such as pricing and hedging derivatives under high-dimensional stochastic environments. The present note gives an overview of the approach.
I dedicate this note to the late Professor Peter Laurence and Koji Takahashi.
I am very grateful to Professor Fujii, Professor Shiraya, Professor Takehara, Dr. Toda, Dr. Tsuzuki and Professor Yamada, my coauthors in the original articles, which are main bases for this survey.
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Takahashi, A. (2015). Asymptotic Expansion Approach in Finance. In: Friz, P., Gatheral, J., Gulisashvili, A., Jacquier, A., Teichmann, J. (eds) Large Deviations and Asymptotic Methods in Finance. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 110. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11605-1_13
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