Abstract
Stability of the utility maximization problem with random endowment and indifference prices is studied for a sequence of financial markets in an incomplete Brownian setting. Our novelty lies in the nonequivalence of markets, in which the volatility of asset prices (as well as the drift) varies. Degeneracies arise from the presence of nonequivalence. In the positive real line utility framework, a counterexample is presented showing that the expected utility maximization problem can be unstable. A positive stability result is proved for utility functions on the entire real line.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 511-541 |
Number of pages | 31 |
Journal | Finance and Stochastics |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 1 2016 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Statistics and Probability
- Finance
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Keywords
- Expected utility theory
- Incompleteness
- Market stability
- Nonequivalent markets
- Random endowment