Geometric BSDEs

Abstract

We introduce and develop the concepts of Geometric Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (GBSDEs, for short) and two-driver BSDEs. We demonstrate their natural suitability for modeling dynamic return risk measures. We characterize a broad spectrum of associated BSDEs with drivers exhibiting growth rates involving terms of the form $y|\ln(y)|+|z|^2/y$. We investigate the existence, regularity, uniqueness, and stability of solutions for these BSDEs and related two-driver BSDEs, considering both bounded and unbounded coefficients and terminal conditions. Furthermore, we present a GBSDE framework for representing the dynamics of (robust) $L^{p}$-norms and related risk measures.