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Deep reinforcement learning for dynamic expectile risk measures: An application to equal risk option pricing and hedging

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Motivated by the application of equal-risk pricing and hedging of a financial derivative, where two operationally meaningful hedging portfolio policies needs to be found that minimizes coherent risk measures, we propose in this paper a novel deep reinforcement learning algorithm for solving risk-averse dynamic decision making problems. Prior to our work, such hedging problems can either only be solved based on static risk measures, leading to time-inconsistent policies, or based on dynamic programming solution schemes that are impracticable in realistic settings. Our work extends for the first time the deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm, an off-policy actor-critic reinforcement learning (ACRL) algorithm, to solving dynamic problems formulated based on time-consistent dynamic expectile risk measure. Our numerical experiments confirm that the new ACRL algorithm produces high quality solutions to equal-risk pricing and hedging problems and that its hedging strategy outperforms the strategy produced using a static risk measure when the risk is evaluated at later points of time.

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