Local risk-minimization for multidimensional assets and payment streams
One of the earliest concepts for hedging and pricing in incomplete financial markets has been the quadratic criterion of local risk-minimization. However, definitions and theory have so far been established only for the case of a single (one-dimensional) risky asset. We extend the approach to a general multidimensional setting and prove that the basic martingale characterization result for locally risk-minimizing strategies still holds true. In comparison with existing literature, the self-contained...