Utility maximization in incomplete markets
Authors:
- Ying HuYHYing Hu
- Peter ImkellerPIPeter Imkeller
- Matthias MüllerMMMatthias Müller
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- 1 August 2005
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Mathematical Statistics in The Annals of Applied Probability
- Vol. 15 (3) , 1691-1712
Abstract
We consider the problem of utility maximization for small traders on incomplete financial markets. As opposed to most of the papers dealing with this subject, the investors’ trading strategies we allow underly constraints described by closed, but not necessarily convex, sets. The final wealths obtained by trading under these constraints are identified as stochastic processes which usually are supermartingales, and even martingales for particular strategies. These strategies are seen to be optimal, and the corresponding value functions determined simply by the initial values of the supermartingales. We separately treat the cases of exponential, power and logarithmic utility.Keywords
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