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expected logarithmic utility from terminal wealth. While the ordinary investor's portfolio decisions are based on a public … expected logarithmic utility in terms of a relative entropy. This allows us to provide simple conditions on G for the … finiteness of this additional utility and to show that it is basically given by the entropy of G. -- insider trading ; entropy …
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we focus on are the calculation of the additional utility of the insider and a study of his free lunch possibilities. The … examples are given to illustrate additional utility and free lunch possibilities. In particular, if the insider has advance …
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In a complete financial market every contingent claim can be hedged perfectly. In an incomplete market it is possible to stay on the safe side by superhedging. But such strategies may require a large amount of initial capital. Here we study the question what an investor can do who is unwilling...
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An investor faced with a contingent claim may eliminate risk by (super-)hedging in a financial market. As this is often quite expensive, we study partial hedges, which require less capital and reduce the risk. In a previous paper we determined quantile hedges which succeed with maximal...
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theory presented seems to fill a gap between arbitrage valuation on the one hand and single agent utility maximization or …This paper presents a general theory that works out the relation between coherent risk measures, valuation bounds, and … full-fledged equilibrium theory on the other hand. "Coherent" valuation bounds strike a balance in that the bounds can be …
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Newspapers and weekly magazines catering to the investing crowd often rank funds according to the returns generated in the past. Aside from satisfying sheer curiosity, these numbers are probably also the basis on which investors pick a fund to invest in. In this article, we fully characterize...
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analysis relies on the non-linear integration theory of such semimartingale families. The Itô-Wentzell formula is used to prove … investor's utility maximization problem. -- large investor ; feedback effect ; parameter dependent semimartingales ; uniform …
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This paper analyzes short term portfolio investment opportunities in a capital market where a currency is defined as a currency basket, i.e. a linear combination of foreign currencies. In line with the mean-variance hedging approach, we determine a self-financed optimal investment strategy which...
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