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An International Journal of Probability and Stochastic Processes
Volume 81, 2009 - Issue 3-4: Stochastic Analysis
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Pricing with non-smooth utility function

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Pages 241-258 | Received 19 May 2008, Accepted 15 Oct 2008, Published online: 23 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

We study the utility based pricing of arbitrary contingent claims in a semi-martingale model of incomplete financial market. We use the super-differential concept. Then we generalize the marginal rate of substitution. So, we adapt the Davis approach to define a family of ‘reasonable’ prices of a contingent claim. Moreover, we prove that each ‘reasonable’ price is an arbitrage price and we prove that the family of ‘reasonable’ prices is bounded. More precisely, we define explicitly the lower (respectively upper) bound. In particular, if the agent's utility function is differentiable or if the agent's optimal wealth is a random variable with density and if the set of reasonable prices is not empty then it is reduced to the unique based utility price. One does ask: for which kind of contingent claim does the investor have a null general marginal rate of substitution? We note that, when the price process is a special semi-martingale in and when the contingent claim is in L 2 and possesses a Fôllmer–Schweizer decomposition, we prove, by using a duality concept, that, when the contingent claim is attainable, the answer of the previous question is yes, but in the general case the problem is still open.

Acknowledgements

We are indebted to Professor Monique Jeanblanc for her useful discussions, and helpful comments as well as her suggestions.

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Notes on contributors

Abdelhamid Trad

1. 1. [email protected].

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