Bruno Bouchard
Professor of Mathematics
Affiliated to Ceremade, Crest
and Institut Europlace de Finance
Associate editor of Finance and Stochastics

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mylastname@ceremade.dauphine.fr
Université Paris-Dauphine, Ceremade, bureau B514, place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France

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Lecture notes

Méthodes de Monte Carlo en Finance (pdf)

Introduction à l'évaluation d'actifs financiers par absence d'opportunité d'arbitrage (pdf)

Portfolio management under risk contraints (pdf)

Introduction to stochastic control of mixed diffusion processes, viscosity solutions and applications in finance and insurance (pdf)




Recent papers

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A stochastic target approach for P&L matching problems, (pdf)
with Vu Than Nam.

Weak Dynamic Programming for Generalized State Constraints, (pdf, slides)
with Marcel Nutz.

Generalized stochastic target problems for pricing and partial hedging under loss constraints - Application in optimal book liquidation, (revised pdf, slides)
with Ngoc Minh Dang.




Published or accepted papers

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Duality in Mathematical Finance

A note on utility based pricing and asymptotic risk diversification, (pdf)
with Romuald Elie and Ludovic Moreau, to appear in Mathematics and Financial Economics.

No-arbitrage of second kind in countable markets with proportional transaction costs, (pdf)
with Erik Taflin, to appear in Annals of Applied Probability.

No marginal arbitrage of the second kind for high production regimes in discrete time production-investment models with proportional transaction costs, (revised pdf, slides)
with Adrien Nguyen Huu, to appear in Mathematical Finance.

Representation of continuous linear forms on the set of ladlag processes and the pricing of American claims under proportional costs,
with Jean-Francois Chassagneux, Electronic Journal of Probability, 2009, 14, 612-632.

Transaction costs in financial models,
with Elyes Jouini, Encyclopedia of Quantitative Finance, Rama Cont (Ed), Wiley.

No-arbitrage in discrete-time markets with proportional transaction costs and general information structure,
Finance and Stochastics, 2006, 10 (2), 276-297 (slides).

On the Hedging of American Options in Discrete Time Markets with Proportional Transaction Costs,
with Emmanuel Temam, Electronic Journal of Probability, 2005, 10, 746-760.

Optimal consumption in discrete time financial models with industrial investment opportunities and non-linear returns,
with Huyen Pham, Annals of Applied Probability, 2005, 15 (4), 2393-2421 (slides).

A version of the G-conditionial bipolar theorem in L0(Rd;P),
Journal of Theoretical Probability, 2005, 18 (2), 439 - 467.

Wealth-Path Dependent Utility Maximization in Incomplete Markets,
with Huyen Pham, Finance and Stochastics, 2004, 8 (4), 579-603.

Dual Formulation of the Utility Maximization Problem : the case of Nonsmooth Utility,
with Nizar Touzi and Amina Zeghal, Annals of Applied Probability, 2004, 14 (2), 678-717.

A multidimensional bipolar theorem in L0(Rd;P),
with Laurent Mazliak, Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 2003, 107 (2), 213-231.

Utility Maximization on the Real Line under Proportional Transaction Costs,
Finance and Stochastics, 2002, 6 (4), 495-516.

Option pricing by large risk aversion utility under transaction costs,
with Youri Kabanov and Nizar Touzi, Decisions in Economics and Finance, 2001, 24, 127-136.


Optimal Control and Applications in Finance

Optimal Control vs Stochastic Target problems: An Equivalence Result, (pdf)
with Ngoc Minh Dang, Systems & Control Letters, 2012, 61 (2), 343-346.

Optimal control of trading algorithms: a general impulse control approach,
with Ngoc Minh Dang et Charles-Albert Lehalle, SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics, 2011, 4, 404-438.

Weak Dynamic Programming Principle for Viscosity Solutions, (PDF, slides)
with Nizar Touzi, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2011, 49 (3), 948-962.

Optimal Control under Stochastic Target Constraints, (pdf, slides)
with Romuald Elie and Cyril Imbert, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2010, 48 (5), 3501-3531.

Stochastic target problems with controlled loss, (pdf, slides)
with Romual Elie and Nizar Touzi, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2009, 48 (5), 3123-3150.

The obstacle version of the Geometric Dynamic Programming Principle: Application to the pricing of American options under constraints,
with Than Nam Vu,
Applied Mathematics and Optimization, 2010, 61 (2), 235-265.

A stochastic target formulation for optimal switching problems in finite horizon.
Stochastics, 2009, 81 (2), 171-197.

Optimal reflection of diffusions and barrier options pricing under constraints, (slides).
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2008, 47 (4), 1785-1813.

Barrier option hedging under constraints: a viscosity approach,
with Imen Bentahar, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization , 2006, 45 (5), 1846-1874.

Explicit characterization of the super-replication strategy in financial markets with partial transaction costs,
with Imen Bentahar, Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 2007, 117 (5), 655-672. (slides).

Stochastic Target with Mixed diffusion processes,
Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 2002, 101, 273-302.

Explicit Solution of the Multivariate Super-Replication Problem under Transaction Costs,
with Nizar Touzi, Annals of Applied Probability, 2000, 10, 685-708.


Numerical Probability

Monte-Carlo valorisation of American options: facts and new algorithms to improve existing methods, (revised pdf)
with Xavier Warin, to appear in Numerical Methods in Finance , Springer Proceedings in Mathematics, ed. R. Carmona, P. Del Moral, P. Hu and N. Oudjane , 2011.

Discrete-Time Approximation of BSDEs and Probabilistic Schemes for Fully Nonlinear PDEs
with Romuald Elie and Nizar Touzi, Radon Series Comp. Appl. Math., Advanced Financial Modelling, Ed. H. Albrecher, W. Runggaldier and W. Schachermayer, 2009.

Strong Approximations of BSDEs in a domain, (slides)
with Stéphane Menozzi, Bernoulli , 2009, 15 (4), 1117-1147.

Discrete time approximation for continuously and discretely reflected BSDE's, ( slides)
with Jean-Francois Chassagneux, Stochastic Processes and their Applications , 2008, 118, 2269-2293.

Discrete time approximation of decoupled Forward-Backward SDE with jumps,
with Romuald Elie, Stochastic Processes and their Applications , 2008, 118 (1), 53-75. (slides).

Maturity randomization for stochastic control problems,
with Nicole El Karoui and Nizar Touzi, Annals of Applied Probability, 2005, 15 (4), 2575-2605.

Discrete-Time Approximation and Monte-Carlo Simulation of Backward Stochastic Differential Equations,
with Nizar Touzi, Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 2004, 111 (2), 175-206.

On the Malliavin approach to Monte Carlo approximation of conditional expectations ,
with Nizar Touzi and Ivar Ekeland, Finance and Stochastics, 2004, 8 (1), 45-71.





Others

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Option Pricing via Utility Maximization in the presence of Transaction Costs : an Asymptotic Analysis,
Ceremade, 1999.

A Note on the Utility Based Option Pricing with Proportional Transaction Costs under Large Risk Aversion,
Crest, 2000.

Exponential hedging and pricing under proportional transaction costs,
Crest, 2000.