Quasi-Self-Dual Exponential Levy Processes

The important application of semistatic hedging in financial markets naturally leads to the notion of quasi-self-dual processes. The focus of our study is to give new characterizations of quasi-self-duality. We analyze quasi-self-dual Levy driven markets which do not admit arbitrage opportunities and derive a set of equivalent conditions for the stochastic logarithm of quasi-self-dual martingale models. Since for nonvanishing order parameter two martingale properties have to be satisfied simultaneously, there is a nontrivial relation between the order and shift parameter representing carrying costs in financial applications. This leads to an equation containing an integral term which has to be inverted in applications. We first discuss several important properties of this equation and, for some well-known Levy-driven models, we derive a family of closed-form inversion formulae.